Emotion Regulation and Well-Being

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Emotion Regulation and Well-Being Ivan Nyklicek, Ad Vinderhoets, and Marcel Zellenberg, editors Intimately involved in our behavior, cognitions, and interpersonal communications, emotions are basic building blocks of our existence. And it is increasingly understood that their regulation, whether adaptive or dysfunctional, is also intricately linked to the gamut of somatic and mental health issues. Emotion Regulation and Well-Being gathers experts from various branches of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience to review emerging and ongoing areas of interest for a lifespan approach to this complex topic. Its cutting-edge coverage is balanced between theoretical constructs and clinical concerns, to be as helpful to the reader interested in a deeper understanding of emotion expression in depression or new issues in repressive coping as to the one looking to add emotion regulation strategies to his or her clinical toolbox. Included among the book’s features: • A biobehavioral perspective on coping styles and aggression. • Critical discussion of emotional intelligence in relation to children’s health. • A personality-based classification model for alexithymia. • An attachment approach to crying in psychotherapy. • New findings on emotion inhibition in eating disorders. • A case study of in-patient treatment for trauma-related emotion regulation dysfunction. • Somatic insights into writing interventions. Emotion Regulation and Well-Being is a state-of-the-art reference for health and clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, and psychiatrists. It is also comprehensive enough to be a useful postgraduate text in health psychology, psychosomatics, clinical psychology, and social psychology. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Emotion Regulation and Well-Being: A View from Different Angles....Pages 1-9 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Capacities, Targets, and Tactics: Lifespan Emotion Regulation from the Perspective of Developmental Functionalism....Pages 13-29 Social Cognitive Factors in Emotion Regulation: Implications for Well-Being....Pages 31-47 From (Unconscious) Perception to Emotion: A Global-to-Specific Unfolding View of Emotional Responding....Pages 49-65 Self-Regulatory Interplay Between Negative and Positive Emotions: The Case of Loneliness and Nostalgia....Pages 67-83 Perseverative Cognition, Psychopathology, and Somatic Health....Pages 85-100 Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, and Well-Being....Pages 101-118 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 Intergroup Emotions: More than the Sum of the Parts....Pages 121-145 The Social Sharing of Emotions in Interpersonal and in Collective Situations: Common Psychosocial Consequences....Pages 147-163 The Experience and Regulation of Regret Across the Adult Life Span....Pages 165-180 Attachment, Emotion Regulation and Adult Crying....Pages 181-195 Self-Conscious Emotions and Social Functioning....Pages 197-210 Gender and Emotion Regulation: A Social Appraisal Perspective on Anger....Pages 211-222 Front Matter....Pages 223-223 Uncovering the Dynamics of Emotion Regulation and Dysfunction in Daily Life with Ecological Momentary Assessment....Pages 225-244 Emotion Regulation and Mentalization in Somatoform Disorders....Pages 245-260 Emotion Perception and Health....Pages 261-280 Emotional Eating....Pages 281-295 Expressive Writing in Patients Diagnosed with Cancer....Pages 297-306 Secrets and Subjective Well-Being: A Clinical Oxymoron....Pages 307-323 Erratum To: From (Unconscious) Perception to Emotion: A Global-to-Specific Unfolding View of Emotional Responding....Pages E1-E1 Back Matter....Pages 325-331