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Effects of Emotion Regulation Difficulties on the Tonic and Phasic Cardiac Autonomic Response

BACKGROUND: Emotion regulation theory aims to explain the interactions between individuals and the environment. In this context, Emotion Regulation Difficulties (ERD) disrupt the physiological component of emotions through the autonomic nervous system and are involved in several psychopathological s...

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Autores principales: Berna, Guillaume, Ott, Laurent, Nandrino, Jean-Louis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4108383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25054913
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102971
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Ott, Laurent
Nandrino, Jean-Louis
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description BACKGROUND: Emotion regulation theory aims to explain the interactions between individuals and the environment. In this context, Emotion Regulation Difficulties (ERD) disrupt the physiological component of emotions through the autonomic nervous system and are involved in several psychopathological states. OBJECTIVE: We were interested in comparing the influence of a film-elicited emotion procedure on the autonomic nervous system activity of two groups with different levels of emotion regulation difficulties. METHODS: A total of 63 women (undergraduate students) ranging from 18 to 27 (20.7±1.99) years old were included. Using the upper and lower quartile of a questionnaire assessing the daily difficulties in regulating emotions, two groups, one with low (LERD) and one with high (HERD) levels of emotion regulation difficulties, were constituted and studied during a film-elicited emotion procedure. Cardiac vagal activity (HF-HRV) was analyzed during three periods: baseline, film-elicited emotion, and recovery. RESULTS: The cardiovascular results showed a decrease in HF-HRV from baseline to elicitation for both groups. Then, from elicitation to recovery, HF-HRV increased for the LERD group, whereas a low HF-HRV level persisted for the HERD group. CONCLUSIONS: The HERD group exhibited inappropriate cardiac vagal recovery after a negative emotion elicitation had ended. Cardiac vagal tone took longer to return to its initial state in the HERD group than in the LERD group. Prolonged cardiac vagal suppression might constitute an early marker of emotion regulation difficulties leading to lower cardiac vagal tone.
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spelling pubmed-41083832014-07-24 Effects of Emotion Regulation Difficulties on the Tonic and Phasic Cardiac Autonomic Response Berna, Guillaume Ott, Laurent Nandrino, Jean-Louis PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Emotion regulation theory aims to explain the interactions between individuals and the environment. In this context, Emotion Regulation Difficulties (ERD) disrupt the physiological component of emotions through the autonomic nervous system and are involved in several psychopathological states. OBJECTIVE: We were interested in comparing the influence of a film-elicited emotion procedure on the autonomic nervous system activity of two groups with different levels of emotion regulation difficulties. METHODS: A total of 63 women (undergraduate students) ranging from 18 to 27 (20.7±1.99) years old were included. Using the upper and lower quartile of a questionnaire assessing the daily difficulties in regulating emotions, two groups, one with low (LERD) and one with high (HERD) levels of emotion regulation difficulties, were constituted and studied during a film-elicited emotion procedure. Cardiac vagal activity (HF-HRV) was analyzed during three periods: baseline, film-elicited emotion, and recovery. RESULTS: The cardiovascular results showed a decrease in HF-HRV from baseline to elicitation for both groups. Then, from elicitation to recovery, HF-HRV increased for the LERD group, whereas a low HF-HRV level persisted for the HERD group. CONCLUSIONS: The HERD group exhibited inappropriate cardiac vagal recovery after a negative emotion elicitation had ended. Cardiac vagal tone took longer to return to its initial state in the HERD group than in the LERD group. Prolonged cardiac vagal suppression might constitute an early marker of emotion regulation difficulties leading to lower cardiac vagal tone. Public Library of Science 2014-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4108383/ /pubmed/25054913 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102971 Text en © 2014 Berna et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Effects of Emotion Regulation Difficulties on the Tonic and Phasic Cardiac Autonomic Response
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title_short Effects of Emotion Regulation Difficulties on the Tonic and Phasic Cardiac Autonomic Response
title_sort effects of emotion regulation difficulties on the tonic and phasic cardiac autonomic response
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4108383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25054913
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102971
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