emotion regulation
Definition
Emotion regulation refers to the processes by which individuals manage and modulate their emotional responses to situations. Cognitive reappraisal, one adaptive strategy, involves changing how individuals think about emotion-eliciting situations in ways that alter their emotional responses. These strategies can moderate the associations between future anxiety and political attitudes, with cognitive reappraisal potentially serving as a coping mechanism that alters how young people interpret feelings of uncertainty and anxiety about the future.
Sources: Borghi et al. (2025)
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Emotion Regulation and Political Attitudes
Cognitive reappraisal moderates the relationship between future anxiety and political attitudes. Youth scoring high in cognitive reappraisal show a negative association between future anxiety and certain political outcomes, while those low in cognitive reappraisal show a positive association, suggesting that adaptive emotion regulation strategies can substantially alter how anxiety about the future translates into political beliefs.
Sources: Borghi et al. (2025)
Emotion Regulation and Future Anxiety
Cognitive reappraisal functions as a moderating mechanism in how future anxiety influences subsequent outcomes. By reinterpreting situations, individuals high in cognitive reappraisal can transform anxious feelings about the future, thereby reducing the strength of associations between future anxiety and other psychological constructs.
Sources: Borghi et al. (2025)
