Promoting adaptive emotion regulation and coping in adolescence: a school-based programme.
Particularly in adolescence, fostering adaptive emotion regulation is an important aim in health promotion. Expressive writing in combination with psycho-education on emotion regulation seems especially appropriate to serve this aim. In this study, school classes were randomly assigned either to a prevention (N = 208) or to a non-treatment control group (N = 151). The prevention group showed significant improvements regarding negative affect, grades, and days absent compared to the control-group. A combination of expressive writing with elements of psycho-education of emotion regulation might be an effective preventive tool, as it seems to improve psychosocial adjustment by establishing functional emotion regulation strategies.
Horn
Andrea B
AB
University of Zurich, Switzerland. a.horn@psychologie.uzh.ch
Pössel
Patrick
P
Hautzinger
Martin
M
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014956:Writing