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2026 Poster Session C
C08 - Meta-Beliefs and Emotion Regulation: Exploring Beliefs About Effectiveness, Effort, and Health
Everyone utilizes emotion regulation techniques, both consciously and subconsciously.
2026 Poster Session C
C08 - Meta-Beliefs and Emotion Regulation: Exploring Beliefs About Effectiveness, Effort, and Health
Mentor: Darwin Guevarra, Ph.D.
Everyone utilizes emotion regulation techniques, both consciously and subconsciously. We are interested in evaluating various emotion regulation techniques based on their perceived effectiveness, ease of use, effort, health, and frequency of use. With this data, we can go forward and explore various questions within this study. Here, we look more specifically at perceived effectiveness, effort, and health.
Exploratory study design to see the perceptions of ten emotion regulation techniques:
- Distanced Self-Talk
- Acceptance
- Exercise
- Listen to Music
- Seek Social Support
- Passive Social Media
- Mindfulness
- Cognitive Reappraisal
- Avoidance
- Emotional Eating
- Through five lenses:
- Effectiveness
- Ease
- Effort
- Health
- Frequency