EMOTION REGULATION

Emotion Regulation and Risk Taking Behaviour

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Thesis Statement1

Hypothesis2

Review of Literature2

Emotional regulation2

Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology2

Factors That Influences the Ability to Regulate Emotional States3

Risk Behavior4

The Concept of Hedonism4

Philosophy of Hedonism5

The Problem of the Value of Hedonic Theory of Emotion and Behavior6

Methodology7

Mixed Method Research7

Research Instrument & Data Collection Method7

Sample Size8

Data Analysis8

Ethical Considerations8

Conclusion9

References10

Emotion Regulation and Risk Taking Behaviour

Introduction

T he scientific study of human emotional behavior has undergone tremendous advances over the past decade. The concert neuroscientist no stranger to this development, brewing inside a sub discipline: affective neuroscience. Its main objective is to elucidate the neural substrates of emotional response, using methods and techniques from different scientific areas related to neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, psychobiology, and psychology. There are several components of emotion that can be addressed scientifically. One of them is emotion regulation, which has been extensively studied from the standpoint of behavioral and recently also have been his biological concomitant (Beyth & Austin, 1993, pp.549-563).

This research work will be focusing on emotional regulation and risk taking behavior. When feelings are not well managed, thought suffers. Recent scientific advances have shown how interrelated development of emotion and cognition is based on the emergence, maturation and interconnection of complex neural circuits located in several brain areas. The circuits involved in emotional regulation interact with those involved in executive functions such as planning, judgment and decision making, which are closely related to the development of problem-solving skills (Blatt, 1991, pp. 285-307).

Thesis Statement

The objective of this study is to explore the relationship between emotion regulation and risk taking behaviors among adolescents. The key psychological factor of the study will be hedonistic emotion regulation which would be positively associated with risk behaviour.

Hypothesis

H1: Hedonistic Emotion Regulation is Positively Associated with Risk Behaviour.

Review of Literature

Emotional regulation

Emotion regulation can be defined as any strategy to maintain, increase or delete a current affective state. From studies that manipulate the emotional response by inducing negative moods (e.g., disgust), (Collins & Steinberg, 2006, pp. 1003-1067) have used various parameters to evaluate and measure the different forms of regulation, including self-administered reports, measures physiological and behavioral indices. In general, attention has focused on the time of occurrence of different forms of regulation along the emotional process. In this context differ: a) early onset strategies (focusing on the background), for example, those that deal with the context, situation and meaning attributed to the source of activation, among others, and b) delayed onset strategy (focused on the response), for example, experienced somatic changes once the emotion is fully opened. While recognizing the existence of various forms of regulation strategies, two have been widely studied: the reassessment (assign a meaning "not emotional" to an event) and suppression (Eisenberg & Murphy, 1995, pp.1360-1384).

Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology

A number of research programs converge to establish that psychopathology arises in part because "a poor regulatory process", either by the type of strategy used or the product of an underdeveloped emotional differentiation. Moreover, recent evidence has shown that emotional regulation process depends on a degree of differentiation prior ...