Projects
Understanding emotional attention from an emotion regulation goal perspective. Ghent University
We examine the idea that emotion regulation goals cause and modulate attentional biases to emotional information. Based on this idea, we predict that what stimuli will be attended (e.g., positive or negative) and how attention might be deployed (i.e., towards or away) will depend on the emotion regulation goal at stake.
Effectiveness of experiential emotion regulation versus cognitive reappraisal in the processing of emotional events. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The road to resilience: The role of cognitive flexibility in emotion regulation and stress resilience Ghent University
Everyone experiences emotionally challenging events in life, but it remains unclear why for some
people this causes sustained distress, while others can regulate their emotions and adapt to a
changing situation. Cognitive flexibility, the ability to flexibly adapt one’ thoughts in response to
events, is important in the context of such emotional events. While cognitive flexibility has been
related ...
How to deal with how you feel: Understanding and training context-dependent emotion regulation KU Leuven
Emotion regulation refers to the variety of processes through which people attempt to influence their emotions. The ability to effectively regulate emotions is key to psychological wellbeing, and emotion dysregulation is a central element of mood disorders. The existing research tends to paint emotion regulation strategies as either adaptive or maladaptive, but increasingly researchers are beginning to realize that this characterization is an ...
EuREKA: Training Emotion Regulation in Adolescents Ghent University
Present research project aims to evaluate a transdiagnostic intervention protocol (Eureka; training emotion regulation in adolescents) for adolescents 10-14 years, diagnosed with internalizing or externalizing problems and seeking help in inpatient or outpatient clinical settings The transdiagnostic protocol is innovative as it incorporates the training of different well-evaluated emotion regulation strategies and skills in a strict ...
Pink cloud or baby blues? The role of emotion regulation and attachment in first-time parents’ response to stress during the transition to parenthood. Ghent University
The birth of a child is an important and potentially challenging life transition. For some parents, the transition goes along with lowered psychosocial well-being. One of the most proximal predictors for well-being is parental stress. This project investigates the role of emotion regulation in experienced stress. Moreover, attachment relationships are investigated with regard to interindividual differences in postnatal emotion regulation.
Boosting vulnerable adolescents: the potential of training emotion regulation skills Ghent University
Adolescence is characterized by increased stress experiences which may foster severe mental health problems. Based on the vulnerability-stress model, we assume that adolescents with a vulnerable temperament or high levels of stress are most at-risk. However, predicting adolescents’mental health based solely on stressors and temperamental disposition is less sufficient to develop tools to intervene. Therefore, the first aim of the current ...
Emotion Regulation in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity in Young Adolescents Ghent University
This multidisciplinary project aims to prove that studying emotion regulation for restoring the psychological and physiological homeostasis is a promising progress for a profound understanding of the obesity problem. We aim to exceed current expertise on obesity with various complementary study designs: longitudinal, case-control and a randomized-clinical-trial using emotion regulation training. Evidence will come from psychological and ...
Emotion Regulation in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity in Young Adolescents Ghent University
This multidisciplinary project aims to prove that studying emotion regulation for restoring the psychological and physiological homeostasis is a promising progress for a profound understanding of the obesity problem. We aim to exceed current expertise on obesity with various complementary study designs: longitudinal, case-control and a randomized-clinical-trial using emotion regulation training. Evidence will come from psychological and ...