title: [Measurement of Affect Regulation Styles (MARS) expanded].
abstract: An expanded Spanish version of the Measure of Affect Regulation Styles (MARS), was applied to episodes of anger and sadness, in a sample of 355 graduate students from Chile, Spain, and Mexico. The study examines the association between affective regulation, adaptation to episodes and dispositional coping and emotional regulation, and psychological well-being. With regard to perceived improvement of adaptive goals, the following adaptive affect regulation strategies were confirmed: Instrumental coping, seeking social support, positive reappraisal, distraction, rumination, self-comfort, self-control, and emotional expression were functional; whereas inhibition and suppression were dysfunctional. Adaptive strategies were positively associated with psychological well-being, reappraisal and humor as a coping strategy. Negative associations were found between adaptive strategies and suppression and alexithymia. Maladaptive strategies show the opposite profile. Confrontation, instrumental coping, social support as well as social isolation were more frequently found in anger, an approach emotion.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Psicología, Universidad del País Vasco, 20080 San Sebastián, Spain. pspparod@ss.ehu.es
authors.forename: Darío Páez
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Rovira
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Martínez Sánchez
authors.forename: Verónica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sevillano Triguero
authors.forename: Andrés
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mendiburo Seguel
authors.forename: Miriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Campos
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology; D000786:Anger; D002677:Chile; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012737:Sex Factors; D012934:Social Isolation; D012944:Social Support; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult