Bottom-up and cognitive top-down emotion regulation : experiential emotion regulation and cognitive reappraisal on stress relief and follow-up sleep physiology Ghent University University of Antwerp Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Emotional stress throughout the day is known to affect objective sleep physiology and subjective sleep quality. In the interplay between emotions and sleep, emotion regulation plays a critical role in the recovery from stressful, emotional events and subsequent sleep. While the effects of top-down emotion regulation strategies such as cognitive reappraisal on sleep have been studied before, the impact of bottom-up emotion regulation strategies ...