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Thinking and Feeling: Individual Differences in Habitual Emotion Regulation and Stress-Related Mood are Associated with Prefrontal Executive Control.

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Scult, MA; Knodt, AR; Swartz, JR; Brigidi, BD; Hariri, AR
Published in: Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
January 2017

Calculating math problems from memory may seem unrelated to everyday processing of emotions, but they have more in common than one might think. Prior research highlights the importance of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) in executive control, intentional emotion regulation, and experience of dysfunctional mood and anxiety. While it has been hypothesized that emotion regulation may be related to 'cold' (ie. not emotion-related) executive control, this assertion has not been tested. We address this gap by providing evidence that greater dlPFC activity during 'cold' executive control is associated with increased use of cognitive reappraisal to regulate emotions in everyday life. We then demonstrate that in the presence of increased life stress, increased dlPFC activity is associated with lower mood and anxiety symptoms and clinical diagnoses. Collectively, our results encourage ongoing efforts to understand prefrontal executive control as a possible intervention target for improving emotion regulation in mood and anxiety disorders.

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Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

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EISSN

2167-7034

ISSN

2167-7026

Publication Date

January 2017

Volume

5

Issue

1

Start / End Page

150 / 157

Related Subject Headings

  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Scult, M. A., Knodt, A. R., Swartz, J. R., Brigidi, B. D., & Hariri, A. R. (2017). Thinking and Feeling: Individual Differences in Habitual Emotion Regulation and Stress-Related Mood are Associated with Prefrontal Executive Control. Clinical Psychological Science : A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 5(1), 150–157. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702616654688
Scult, Matthew A., Annchen R. Knodt, Johnna R. Swartz, Bartholomew D. Brigidi, and Ahmad R. Hariri. “Thinking and Feeling: Individual Differences in Habitual Emotion Regulation and Stress-Related Mood are Associated with Prefrontal Executive Control.Clinical Psychological Science : A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science 5, no. 1 (January 2017): 150–57. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702616654688.
Scult MA, Knodt AR, Swartz JR, Brigidi BD, Hariri AR. Thinking and Feeling: Individual Differences in Habitual Emotion Regulation and Stress-Related Mood are Associated with Prefrontal Executive Control. Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. 2017 Jan;5(1):150–7.
Scult, Matthew A., et al. “Thinking and Feeling: Individual Differences in Habitual Emotion Regulation and Stress-Related Mood are Associated with Prefrontal Executive Control.Clinical Psychological Science : A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science, vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 150–57. Epmc, doi:10.1177/2167702616654688.
Scult MA, Knodt AR, Swartz JR, Brigidi BD, Hariri AR. Thinking and Feeling: Individual Differences in Habitual Emotion Regulation and Stress-Related Mood are Associated with Prefrontal Executive Control. Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. 2017 Jan;5(1):150–157.
Journal cover image

Published In

Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

DOI

EISSN

2167-7034

ISSN

2167-7026

Publication Date

January 2017

Volume

5

Issue

1

Start / End Page

150 / 157

Related Subject Headings

  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1701 Psychology