title: Up- and down-regulation of daily emotion: an experience sampling study of Chinese adolescents' regulatory tendency and effects.
abstract: The present study examined Chinese adolescents' emotion regulatory tendency and its effect, using an Experience Sampling Method. Participants comprised 72 Chinese adolescents (M age = 15.2 yr., SD = 1.7; 36 girls). Momentary emotional experience and regulation was assessed up to 5 or 6 times each day for two weeks. Results showed that participants tended to use up-regulation when they experienced positive emotion and habitually regulated their negative emotion by down-regulation. Also, adolescents who utilized down-regulation in a certain sampling moment reported higher positive emotion at the subsequent sampling moment. Moreover, adolescents who utilized down-regulation more frequently reported higher positive emotion at the subsequent sampling moment. Overall, down-regulation seemed to be a more adaptive regulatory strategy than up-regulation in Chinese adolescents' emotional lives.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P R China.
authors.forename: Xinmei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P R China.
authors.forename: Biao
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sang
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P R China.
authors.forename: Ziyan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Luan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D025461:Feedback, Physiological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male