Not just emotion regulation, but cognition: An experience sampling study testing the relations of ecological interpretation biases and use of emotion regulation strategies with momentary affective states during daily life functioning

Current research is moving from studying cognitive biases and maladaptive emotion regulation (ER) as relatively stable phenomena contributing to affective disturbances, adopting ecological methodologies, such as Experience Sampling Methods (ESM). However, there is still limited ESM evidence on the i...

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Published in:Behaviour research and therapy 2024-06, Vol.177, p.104550-104550, Article 104550
Main Authors: Boemo, Teresa, Martín-Garcia, Oscar, Pacheco-Romero, Ana Mar, Blanco, Ivan, Lafit, Ginette, Myin-Germeys, Inez, Sanchez-Lopez, Alvaro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of Daily Living - psychology
Adolescent
Adult
Affect
Anxiety - psychology
Cognition
Ecological Momentary Assessment
Emotion regulation strategies
Emotional Regulation
Experience sampling methods
Female
Humans
Interpretation bias
Male
Middle Aged
Rumination, Cognitive - physiology
Self Report
Stress intensity
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Young Adult
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Summary:Current research is moving from studying cognitive biases and maladaptive emotion regulation (ER) as relatively stable phenomena contributing to affective disturbances, adopting ecological methodologies, such as Experience Sampling Methods (ESM). However, there is still limited ESM evidence on the interactions between stress and ER strategies’ use, and negative interpretation biases, regarding their relations with momentary affective states. In this study, we used a new ESM design to disentangle the contextual, regulatory and cognitive processes implicated in daily affective experiences. A sample of 103 participants completed an ESM study (3 times a day for 10 days) that included self-reports of momentary affect, stress intensity, ER strategies’ use and a cognitive task measuring momentary negative interpretation biases. Multilevel analyses supported significant interactions of both rumination and worry with stress intensity, to account for momentary higher negative and lower positive affect levels. Furthermore, higher state negative interpretation bias levels uniquely predicted both higher negative and lower positive momentary affect levels. This study implemented a novel online cognitive task within an ESM procedure, which helped to disentangle how contextual ER strategies’ use and momentary cognitive biases uniquely relate to affective experiences in daily life. •We implemented a negative interpretation bias task in an ESM procedure.•Higher NA and lower PA were related to rumination use at higher stress.•Higher NA and lower PA were related to worry use at higher stress.•Stress intensity did not interact with reappraisal in relation with momentary affect.•Momentary interpretation bias was concurrently related with higher NA and lower PA.
ISSN:0005-7967
1873-622X
DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2024.104550