The link between cognitive and affective empathy and interpersonal emotion regulation direction and strategies

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ID21391964
AutoresGabriel Chavira Trujillo (0000-0001-9918-1822, Epidemiology Department National Institute of Cardiology “Ignacio Chávez” Ciudad de México Mexico), María Gallego Tomás (Department of Psychology Liverpool Hope University Liverpool UK), Belén Lopéz-Pérez (0000-0002-8517-2236, Liverpool Hope University, autor correspondente), Belén López‐pérez (Department of Psychology Liverpool Hope University Liverpool UK)
Ano2022
Volume63
Fascículo6
Páginas594-600
Data de publicação2022-12-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoScandinavian Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0036-5564 • E-ISSN: 1467-9450
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/sjop.12847
PMID35698828
OpenAlexW4282841800
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas44

Interpersonal emotion regulation (ER) refers to the different processes aimed at changing the emotional states of others. Some authors have speculated about the pivotal role of empathy for interpersonal ER to happen. However, the very limited empirical evidence suggests that only cognitive empathy as opposed to affective empathy may be a necessary antecedent. As previous research only considered interpersonal affect improvement and showed mixed evidence for the regulation strategies, we aimed to address this gap in the current research. To that aim, 374 adults ( M = 30.3 years, 249 female) reported their tendency to engage in cognitive (perspective‐taking) and affective empathy (empathic concern and personal distress) as well as their tendency to improve and worsen others' mood, and to use different regulation strategies (situation modification, attention deployment, cognitive change, and modulation of the emotional response) to change others' feelings. Results of the regression analyses showed that while affect improvement was not significantly predicted by any of the empathy variables, affect worsening was positively predicted by personal distress. Concerning the regulation strategies, while cognitive change and situation modification were positively predicted by personal distress, attention deployment was positively predicted by perspective‐taking. Overall, the obtained results highlight the need to further investigate the link between empathy and ER and to carefully consider the methods selected for that purpose

Affect (linguistics) · Cognition · Cognitive reappraisal · Developmental psychology · Distress · Empathic concern · Empathy · Feeling · Interpersonal communication · Mood · Personal distress · Perspective (graphical) · Perspective-taking · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Emotional Intelligence and Performance · Empathy and Medical Education · Psychology · Social Psychology

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