A Current Overview on Emotion Regulation: Contextual Factors

Abstract

Emotion regulation is a transdiagnostic concept which has been frequently studied in the field of psychological health. Although these empirical studies in the relevant literature revealed important findings, it has also been currently mentioned that emotion regulation is mostly studied with certain tools having some limitations but it is not a uniform subject, and there are some contextual factors in emotion regulation which has been considered as having determinative role. In this sense, when we say emotion regulation now, we can refer several contextual factors such as relevant situation/event, emotion that is regulated, interpersonal conditions, spontaneous emergence of emotion regulation strategies, co-occurrence of various regulation methods, efficacy of the strategies and specific time frame of regulation. In this article, it is aimed to first describe emotion regulation which is frequently mentioned in national and international literature, and then, to review recent empirical research findings and to question limitations of traditional approaches toward emotion regulation by examining some salient contextual factors and finally, to present some relevant suggestions based on current approaches.

Keywords

• Emotion regulation
• contextual factors in emotion regulation
• interpersonal emotion regulation
• process model
• assessment of emotion regulation

Duygu Düzenlemeye Güncel Bir Bakış: Bağlamsal Faktörler

Öz

Duygu düzenleme psikolojik sağlık alanında sıklıkla çalışılan, tanılar üstü bir kavram olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. İlgili alanyazındaki görgül çalışmalar bu konuyla ilgili önemli bilgiler ortaya koymakla birlikte, son yıllarda duygu düzenlemenin çoğunlukla bazı sınırlılıkları olan belirli araçlarla çalışıldığı ancak aslında duygu düzenlemenin tekdüze bir kavram olmadığı; her ne kadar bugüne kadar ihmal edilse de ortaya çıktığı bağlamın düzenleme üzerinde belirleyici bir rolü olduğu vurgulanmaya başlamıştır. Bu bağlamda, duygu düzenleme dendiğinde artık duygu ile ilişkili durum/olay, düzenlenen duygu, kişilerarası koşullar, duygu düzenleme stratejilerinin spontane şekilde ortaya çıkış biçimi, farklı düzenleme yöntemlerinin bir arada kullanılabilmesi, sergilenen stratejilerin etkinliği ve düzenlemeye özgü zaman aralığı gibi pek çok farklı bağlamsal faktörden söz edilmektedir. Bu makalede de ilk olarak ulusal ve uluslararası alanyazında sıkça söz edilen duygu düzenlemeyi tanımlamak, ardından güncel araştırma bulgularını derleyip bir dizi bağlamsal faktörü ele alarak geleneksel yaklaşımların bu noktalardaki sınırlılıklarını sorgulamak ve son olarak bu konulardaki güncel yaklaşımlardan hareketle bazı öneriler sunmak hedeflenmiştir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Duygu düzenleme
• duygu düzenlemede bağlamsal faktörler
• kişilerarası duygu düzenleme
• süreç modeli
• duygu düzenlemenin değerlendirilmesi

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