title: Emotion Regulation and the Anxiety Disorders: An Integrative Review.
abstract: The construct of emotion regulation has been increasingly investigated in the last decade, and this work has important implications for advancing anxiety disorder theory. This paper reviews research demonstrating that: 1) emotion (i.e., fear and anxiety) and emotion regulation are distinct, non-redundant, constructs that can be differentiated at the conceptual, behavioral, and neural levels of analysis; 2) emotion regulation can augment or diminish fear, depending on the emotion regulation strategy employed; and 3) measures of emotion regulation explain incremental variance in anxiety disorder symptoms above and beyond the variance explained by measures of emotional reactivity. The authors propose a model by which emotion regulation may function in the etiology of anxiety disorders. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research.
authors.affiliation: University of Arkansas.
authors.forename: Josh M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Cisler
authors.forename: Bunmi O
authors.initials: BO
authors.lastname: Olatunji
authors.forename: Matthew T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Feldner
authors.forename: Jphn P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Forsyth