An Exploratory Study of Novel Measures to Capture Situational Expressive Suppression
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Wylie, Megan
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eng
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Expressive suppression , Social functioning , Relationship quality , Naturalistic observation , Measurement development
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Expressive suppression is widely believed to be a maladaptive emotion regulation strategy due to
its association with poor social functioning. Nonetheless, controlling when and how to express
emotions is also the hallmark of competent emotion regulation. However, we do not have a clear
understanding of how spontaneously-occurring expressive suppression use during social
interactions impacts social functioning. Therefore, the current study tested three novel measures
of situational expressive suppression as predictors of relationship quality. Adolescents (N = 184)
and their mothers engaged in an emotional discussion in the lab. Adolescents’ expressive
suppression was measured through self-report, observation, and an interaction between feelings
and expression (i.e., high feelings and low expression indicating suppression), to predict
mothers’ ratings of relationship closeness. The observation and interaction approaches predicted
lower relationship quality. However, the self-report measures did not predict relationship quality,
and there was minimal concordance among all novel measures. I discuss the possibility of
expressive suppression being observable and possible future directions to further develop the
novel measures to better capture expressive suppression.
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