The Association between Self-Reported Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Heart Rate Variability: The Salient Role of Not Accepting Negative Emotions
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...
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doaj-5514f915ebbe4ddf9dde2a96249695782020-11-25T01:03:01ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782017-03-01810.3389/fpsyg.2017.00328250192The Association between Self-Reported Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Heart Rate Variability: The Salient Role of Not Accepting Negative EmotionsEndre Visted0Endre Visted1Lin Sørensen2Berge Osnes3Berge Osnes4Julie L. Svendsen5Julie L. Svendsen6Per-Einar Binder7Elisabeth Schanche8Department of Clinical Psychology, University of BergenBergen, NorwayDivision of Psychiatry, Haukeland University HospitalBergen, NorwayDepartment of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of BergenBergen, NorwayDepartment of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of BergenBergen, NorwayBjørgvin District Psychiatric Centre, Haukeland University HospitalBergen, NorwayDepartment of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of BergenBergen, NorwayBjørgvin District Psychiatric Centre, Knarvik, Haukeland University HospitalIsdalstø, NorwayDepartment of Clinical Psychology, University of BergenBergen, NorwayDepartment of Clinical Psychology, University of BergenBergen, NorwayDifficulties 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.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00328/fullemotion regulationHeart Rate Variability (HRV)emotion regulation strategiesacceptanceDifficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)self-report scales |
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Endre Visted Endre Visted Lin Sørensen Berge Osnes Berge Osnes Julie L. Svendsen Julie L. Svendsen Per-Einar Binder Elisabeth Schanche The Association between Self-Reported Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Heart Rate Variability: The Salient Role of Not Accepting Negative Emotions Frontiers in Psychology emotion regulation Heart Rate Variability (HRV) emotion regulation strategies acceptance Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) self-report scales |
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Endre Visted Endre Visted Lin Sørensen Berge Osnes Berge Osnes Julie L. Svendsen Julie L. Svendsen Per-Einar Binder Elisabeth Schanche |
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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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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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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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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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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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association between self-reported difficulties in emotion regulation and heart rate variability: the salient role of not accepting negative emotions |
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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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emotion regulation Heart Rate Variability (HRV) emotion regulation strategies acceptance Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) self-report scales |
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