RESEARCH PAPER
The mediating role of emotion regulation in the emotional complexity and subjective
well-being relationship
1
Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, India
2
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Submission date: 2021-05-22
Final revision date: 2022-01-11
Acceptance date: 2022-02-15
Online publication date: 2022-03-24
Current Issues in Personality Psychology 2022;10(4):277–286
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ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Emotional complexity involves greater emotional awareness and understanding and associates strongly with adaptive emo-tion regulation. Similarly, regulation of emotion is vital for achieving, restoring, and sustaining subjective well-being. The present study, therefore, tested the mediatory role of emotion regulatory processes in the relationship between emotional complexity and subjective well-being.
Participants and procedure:
A total of 285 participants completed self-report measures of emotional complexity, emotion regulation, positive/negative affect, and life satisfaction, and the data were analyzed using correlations and structural equation modelling.
Results:
Findings indicated that individuals high in emotional complexity experience greater subjective well-being. Moreover, the results revealed that reappraisal mediated the relationship of emotion differentiation with positive affect and life satisfac-tion whereas suppression mediated the relationship between the range of emotions and life satisfaction.
Conclusions:
These findings underscore the significance of emotion regulation in mediating the relationship between emotional complexi-ty and subjective well-being.
Emotional complexity involves greater emotional awareness and understanding and associates strongly with adaptive emo-tion regulation. Similarly, regulation of emotion is vital for achieving, restoring, and sustaining subjective well-being. The present study, therefore, tested the mediatory role of emotion regulatory processes in the relationship between emotional complexity and subjective well-being.
Participants and procedure:
A total of 285 participants completed self-report measures of emotional complexity, emotion regulation, positive/negative affect, and life satisfaction, and the data were analyzed using correlations and structural equation modelling.
Results:
Findings indicated that individuals high in emotional complexity experience greater subjective well-being. Moreover, the results revealed that reappraisal mediated the relationship of emotion differentiation with positive affect and life satisfac-tion whereas suppression mediated the relationship between the range of emotions and life satisfaction.
Conclusions:
These findings underscore the significance of emotion regulation in mediating the relationship between emotional complexi-ty and subjective well-being.
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