ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0537-9034
Date Awarded
2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Department
Psychology
Advisor
Meghan E Quinn
Committee Member
Paul Kieffaber
Committee Member
Madelyn Labella
Abstract
Emotion regulation is a pivotal transdiagnostic construct. It is also a quintessential element in many suicidal processes. There have been limited studies that assess how individuals possessing suicidality might use emotion regulation strategies to reduce negative emotion in short minute-to-minute experiments. Furthermore, studies in this area that allow for voluntary emotion regulation are needed. We assessed how individuals with different levels of suicidality regulated negative emotions during a laboratory affect induction. We also utilized an experimental design that provided participants with greater emotion regulation autonomy. We assessed emotion regulation through the paradigms of timing/latency, strategy selection preference, frequency of strategy selection, and negative affect reduction. We also assessed the moderating effect of suicidality on the association between strategy utility and strategy preference. Suicidality showed a positive relationship with emotion regulation latency, along with a negative relationship with distraction preference. However, both of these relationships were not significant after controlling for internalizing symptoms. Finally, exploratory analyses did not yield any significant findings. This study suggests that while there may be unique elements of the emotion regulation process among suicidal individuals, a number of these processes are likely similar between normative and suicidal samples.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.21220/s2-3fk9-dm46
Rights
© The Author
Recommended Citation
Hickman, Jonah, "Voluntary Emotion Regulation And Suicidality: Associations With Latency, Preference, Frequency, And Utility In Short Minute-To-Minute Contexts" (2024). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. William & Mary. Paper 1717521878.
https://dx.doi.org/10.21220/s2-3fk9-dm46
