ACADEMIC ABSTRACT This paper aims to motivate research on emotion regulation success in naturalistic settings. We define emotion regulation success as achieving one's emotion regulation goal and differentiate it from related concepts (i.e., maladaptive regulation and dysregulation). As goals vary across individuals and situations, it is insufficient to conceptualize emotion regulation success as maximizing positive affect and minimizing negative affect. Instead, emotion regulation success can be measured through novel approaches targeting the achievement of emotion regulation goals. In addition to utilizing novel data analytic tools (e.g., response surface analyses), future research can make use of informant reports and observing ambulatory behavior or physiology. Considering emotion regulation goals when measuring daily emotion regulation success has the potential to answer key questions about personality, development, and mental health. PUBLIC ABSTRACT People differ in how they want to feel in daily situations (e.g., excited) and why they want to feel that way (e.g., to make others feel better), depending on factors such as culture or age. Although people manage their emotions to reach these goals, most research assessing emotion regulation success has not taken individual goals into account. When assessing if people successfully regulate their emotions, most research in daily life has been focused on whether people feel more positive or less negative. To help study emotion regulation success in a more thoughtful and inclusive way, we propose a new approach to conceptualizing emotion regulation success that incorporates individual differences in what motivates people to regulate and discuss future research directions and applications.

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区分日常生活中的情绪调节成功与适应不良调节和失调。


学术摘要本文旨在激发对自然环境中情绪调节成功的研究。我们将情绪调节成功定义为实现一个人的情绪调节目标，并将其与相关概念（即适应不良调节和失调）区分开来。由于目标因个人和情况而异，将情绪调节成功概念化为最大化积极影响和最小化消极影响是不够的。相反，情绪调节的成功可以通过针对情绪调节目标实现的新方法来衡量。除了利用新颖的数据分析工具（例如响应面分析）之外，未来的研究还可以利用线人报告并观察动态行为或生理学。在衡量日常情绪调节成功与否时考虑情绪调节目标有可能回答有关人格、发展和心理健康的关键问题。公共摘要人们在日常情况下想要的感受（例如，兴奋）以及为什么想要有这种感觉（例如，让别人感觉更好）有所不同，具体取决于文化或年龄等因素。尽管人们通过管理情绪来实现这些目标，但大多数评估情绪调节成功与否的研究并未考虑个人目标。在评估人们是否成功调节情绪时，日常生活中的大多数研究都集中在人们是否感到更积极或更少消极。为了帮助以更加深思熟虑和更具包容性的方式研究情绪调节的成功，我们提出了一种概念化情绪调节成功的新方法，该方法将个体差异纳入激励人们调节和讨论未来研究方向和应用的因素。