Cognitive emotion regulation and personality: an analysis of individual differences in the neural and behavioral correlates of successful reappraisal
Autor: | Alexander Strobel, Burkhard Brocke, Christoph Scheffel, Sabine Schönfeld, Denise Dörfel, Kersten Diers |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
emotion regulation
Materials science Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Amygdala 050105 experimental psychology Arousal 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine medicine Personality 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Big Five personality traits Prefrontal cortex media_common Neural correlates of consciousness Relaxation (psychology) 05 social sciences fMRI Cognition reappraisal amygdala Psychiatry and Mental health medicine.anatomical_structure personality Neurology (clinical) Empirical Paper 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
Zdroj: | Personality Neuroscience |
ISSN: | 2513-9886 |
Popis: | A common and mostly effective emotion regulation strategy is reappraisal. During reappraisal, activity in cognitive control brain regions increases and activity in brain regions associated with emotion responding (e.g., the amygdala) diminishes. Immediately after reappraisal, it has been observed that activity in the amygdala increases again, which might reflect a paradoxical aftereffect. While there is extensive empirical evidence for these neural correlates of emotion regulation, only few studies targeted the association with individual differences in personality traits. The aim of this study is to investigate these associations more thoroughly. Seventy-six healthy participants completed measures of broad personality traits (Big Five, Positive and Negative Affect) as well as of more narrow traits (habitual use of emotion regulation) and performed an experimental fMRI reappraisal task. Participants were instructed to either permit their emotions or to detach themselves from the presented negative and neutral pictures. After each picture, a relaxation period was included. Reappraisal success was determined by arousal ratings and activity in the amygdala. During reappraisal, we found activation in the prefrontal cortex and deactivation in the left amygdala. During the relaxation period, an immediate aftereffect was found in occipital regions and marginally in the amygdala. Neither personality traits nor habitual use of emotion regulation predicted reappraisal success or the magnitude of the aftereffect. We replicated typical activation and deactivation patterns during intentional emotion regulation and partially replicated the immediate aftereffect in the amygdala. However, there was no association between personality traits and emotion regulation success. |
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