- OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY
- [UNTITLED]
- SHORT CONTENTS
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- The Blossoming of Relationship Science
- Relationships from an Evolutionary Life History Perspective
- An Interdependence Theory Analysis of Close Relationships
- The Role of Attachment Security in Adolescent and Adult Close Relationships
- The Self-Expansion Model of Motivation and Cognition in Close Relationships
- Regulating Interpersonal Risk
- Love Is a Battlefield: Romantic Attraction, Intrasexual Competition, and Conflict between the Sexes
- Cultural Influences on Attraction
- Implicit Theories of Relationships: Destiny and Growth Beliefs
- The Social Psychology of Love
- Error Management in Relationships
- Communal (and Other) Relationships: History, Theory Development, Recent Findings, and Future Directions
- Transference and the Relational Self
- Love, Reality, and Illusion in Intimate Relationships
- Motivations for Promotion or Prevention in Close Relationships
- Empathic Accuracy in Close Relationships
- The Nature of Female Sexuality: Insights into the Dynamics of Romantic Relationships
- Responsiveness
- Regulation Processes in Close Relationships
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Implicit Cognition and Relationship Processes
- Emotion Regulation in Close Relationships
- Emotion in Relationships
- Personality and Relationships
- Interdependence Revisited: Perspectives from Cultural Psychology
- Relationship Maintenance Processes
- Sexuality in Relationships
- Romantic Relationships and Health
- Gratitude and Forgiveness in Relationships
- Couples and Stress: How Demands Outside a Relationship Affect Intimacy within the Relationship
- Toward an Integrative Neuroscience of Relationships
- Social Support Processes in Relationships
- Repeated Measures with Dyads
- What’s Past Is Prologue: Social Developmental Antecedents of Close Relationships
- The Development of Human Reproductive Strategies: Toward an Integration of Life History and Sexual Selection Models
- Divorce and Close Relationships: Findings, Themes, and Future Directions
- The Waving of the Relationship Flag
- INDEX
Abstract and Keywords
Emotion regulation is important for optimal relationship functioning because it can help avoid conflict and create smoother, more enjoyable interactions. However, there are many ways to regulate emotion, and each strategy has a unique profile of consequences, with some emotion regulation strategies being more beneficial than others. Our goal in this chapter is to provide a framework for thinking about and studying the link between emotion regulation and close relationships. First, we provide a broad overview of emotion and emotion regulation, highlighting the most important intrapersonal consequences that are relevant to relationship functioning as well as the direct interpersonal consequences. Then we outline some important emerging themes in the emotion regulation and close relationship literature, including (1) moving beyond the individual regulating his or her own emotions, (2) exploring underlying mechanisms, (3) isolating boundary conditions, and (4) examining the role of close relationships in shaping emotion regulation efforts. Finally, we discuss the broader implications of the existing research on emotion regulation and relationships, and propose some new and promising directions for future research. Throughout the chapter, we show that emotion regulation both influences and is influenced by close relationships.
Keywords: emotion regulation, suppression, reappraisal, emotion experience, emotion expression, close relationships
Tammy English, Stanford Center on Longevity, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Oliver P. John, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
James J. Gross, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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- OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY
- [UNTITLED]
- SHORT CONTENTS
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- The Blossoming of Relationship Science
- Relationships from an Evolutionary Life History Perspective
- An Interdependence Theory Analysis of Close Relationships
- The Role of Attachment Security in Adolescent and Adult Close Relationships
- The Self-Expansion Model of Motivation and Cognition in Close Relationships
- Regulating Interpersonal Risk
- Love Is a Battlefield: Romantic Attraction, Intrasexual Competition, and Conflict between the Sexes
- Cultural Influences on Attraction
- Implicit Theories of Relationships: Destiny and Growth Beliefs
- The Social Psychology of Love
- Error Management in Relationships
- Communal (and Other) Relationships: History, Theory Development, Recent Findings, and Future Directions
- Transference and the Relational Self
- Love, Reality, and Illusion in Intimate Relationships
- Motivations for Promotion or Prevention in Close Relationships
- Empathic Accuracy in Close Relationships
- The Nature of Female Sexuality: Insights into the Dynamics of Romantic Relationships
- Responsiveness
- Regulation Processes in Close Relationships
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Implicit Cognition and Relationship Processes
- Emotion Regulation in Close Relationships
- Emotion in Relationships
- Personality and Relationships
- Interdependence Revisited: Perspectives from Cultural Psychology
- Relationship Maintenance Processes
- Sexuality in Relationships
- Romantic Relationships and Health
- Gratitude and Forgiveness in Relationships
- Couples and Stress: How Demands Outside a Relationship Affect Intimacy within the Relationship
- Toward an Integrative Neuroscience of Relationships
- Social Support Processes in Relationships
- Repeated Measures with Dyads
- What’s Past Is Prologue: Social Developmental Antecedents of Close Relationships
- The Development of Human Reproductive Strategies: Toward an Integration of Life History and Sexual Selection Models
- Divorce and Close Relationships: Findings, Themes, and Future Directions
- The Waving of the Relationship Flag
- INDEX