Correlations between emotion regulation goals and cognitive emotion regulation strategies
Correlations between emotion regulation goals and cognitive emotion regulation strategies

Summary/Abstract: The issue of the relationship between the goals of the emotion regulation and the emotion regulation strategies has been extremely rarely taken into consideration in an explicit way by the researchers interested in the emotion regulation domain. The present study was aimed to be a contribution in that respects, through an exploratory correlational research on 91 first year students from the University of Fine Arts and Design from Cluj-Napoca (mean age: 20 years). In order to investigate the goals of the emotion regulation, there were used an ad hoc instrument, The Questionnaire for the Emotion Regulation Goals (QERG), elaborated by the author of this study, and the questionnaire Self-Regulation of Withholding Negative Emotions (SRWNE), elaborated by Kim, Deci and Zuckerman, in 2002. The cognitive emotion regulation strategies were assessed with a Romanian version of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), elaborated by Garnefski, Kraaij and Spinhoven in2001. Synthetically speaking,, the main result was that the preference for the cognitive emotion regulation strategies considered in the scientific literature to be adaptive and desirable (as positive reappraisal, refocus on planning, putting into perspective are)was positively associated only with the preference for some of the investigated emotion regulation goals: the autonomous goals, the goals aiming the complete elimination of an undesirable emotion, of helping the attainment of another personal goal(instrumental ones), or aiming the understanding of one’s own personal affective feelings. Given the exploratory nature of the study, future research is needed in order to see which of the obtained results are accidental and which can be replicated.

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