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ERIC Number: EJ818509
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Dec
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0001-8791
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Linking Emotion Regulation Strategies to Affective Events and Negative Emotions at Work
Diefendorff, James M.; Richard, Erin M.; Yang, Jixia
Journal of Vocational Behavior, v73 n3 p498-508 Dec 2008
This study examined the use of specific forms of emotion regulation at work, utilizing Gross's [Gross, J. J. (1998). "The emerging field of emotion regulation: An integrative review." "Review of General Psychology" 2, 271-299] process-based framework of emotion regulation as a guiding structure. In addition to examining employee self-reported usage of these emotion regulation strategies, we assessed the types of discrete negative emotions and negative affective events associated with their use. Results demonstrated that employees reported using a wide variety of emotion regulation strategies, and that each strategy tended to align with a distinct set of discrete negative emotions and affective events. These findings support expanding the focus of emotion regulation strategies at work beyond the deep acting (i.e., changing feelings) and surface acting (i.e., changing expressions) distinction. The results also suggest that focusing on specific strategies, rather than categories of emotion regulation, could enhance understanding of how employees manage their emotions at work. (Contains 3 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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