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Individual Differences And Ecological Validity Of Emotion Regulation In Response To Sadness, Colin M. Bosma
Individual Differences And Ecological Validity Of Emotion Regulation In Response To Sadness, Colin M. Bosma
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The majority of research on emotion regulation processes has been restricted to controlled laboratory settingsthat use experimental paradigms to investigate short-term outcomes (Berking & Wupperman, 2012). A true understanding of emotion regulation requires an unobtrusive, ecologically valid assessment of the construct as it naturally unfolds in the environment. Digital phenotyping, or moment-by-moment quantification of individual-level human behavior using data from smartphone sensors (Torous & Onnela, 2016), is a novel method for evaluating human behavior in naturalistic settings. The present project is the first to implement digital phenotyping in the investigation of emotion regulation.
The central aim of the study was …