Choosing emotion regulation strategies: The effects of interpersonal cues and symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder
Abstract
Selecting interpersonal behavior that is best suited to a situation relies on identifying and incorporating cues.Among these cues may be the emotion of interaction partners or the intimacy of the relationship.One situation in which it may be particularly important to use information from interpersonal cues may be in the case of interpersonal emotion regulation.Emotion regulation allows us to motivate and organize behavior.Some emotion regulation strategies rely on interactions with others; these are referred to as Interpersonal Emotion Regulation strategies (IER).Use of IER when environmental cues suggest such strategies may be unwelcome or inappropriate may result in unsuccessful attempts at regulation, increased dissatisfaction in relationships, or both.One aim of the current investigation was to understand whether BPD symptoms were related to impaired use of interpersonal cues.In this study, participants (N= 174) were asked to indicate the likelihood of using IER in vignette scenarios which varied by cues of emotion (i.e., anger or neutral emotion) and relationship intimacy (i.e., high intimacy or low intimacy relationship).There was no significant difference in participant ratings of the likelihood of using interpersonal emotional regulations strategies when and anger cue was presented versus when it was not, t(172) = -.88,p = .38.Participants reported that the mean likelihood for using interpersonal emotion regulation strategies was higher when a cue of intimacy was…
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