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The Association between Self-Reported Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Heart Rate Variability: The Salient Role of Not Accepting Negative Emotions

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Title
The Association between Self-Reported Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Heart Rate Variability: The Salient Role of Not Accepting Negative Emotions
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Frontiers in Psychology, March 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00328
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Endre Visted, Lin Sørensen, Berge Osnes, Julie L. Svendsen, Per-Einar Binder, Elisabeth Schanche

Abstract

Difficulties in emotion regulation are associated with development and maintenance of psychopathology. Typically, features of emotion regulation are assessed with self-report questionnaires. Heart rate variability (HRV) is an objective measure proposed as an index of emotional regulation capacity. A limited number of studies have shown that self-reported difficulties in emotion regulation are associated with HRV. However, results from prior studies are inconclusive, and an ecological validation of the association has not yet been tested. Therefore, further exploration of the relation between self-report questionnaires and psychophysiological measures of emotional regulation is needed. The present study investigated the contribution of self-reported emotion regulation difficulties on HRV in a student sample. We expected higher scores on emotion regulation difficulties to be associated with lower vagus-mediated HRV (vmHRV). Sixty-three participants filled out the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale and their resting HRV was assessed. In addition, a subsample of participants provided ambulatory 24-h HRV data, in order to ecologically validate the resting data. Correlation analyses indicated that self-reported difficulties in emotion regulation was negatively associated with vmHRV in both resting HRV and 24-h HRV. Specifically, when exploring the contribution of the different facets of emotion dysregulation, the inability to accept negative emotions showed the strongest association with HRV. The results are discussed and need for future research is described.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Unknown 219 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 45 20%
Student > Master 26 12%
Student > Bachelor 21 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 9%
Researcher 15 7%
Other 31 14%
Unknown 63 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 94 43%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 5%
Neuroscience 10 5%
Social Sciences 8 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 3%
Other 24 11%
Unknown 69 31%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 January 2019.
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