Loneliness and emotion regulation in daily life

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American University in Cairo

Author's Department

Psychology Department

Third Author's Department

Psychology Department

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112566

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Lameese Eldesouky, Amit Goldenberg, Kate Ellis

Document Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Personality and Individual Differences

Publication Date

4-1-2024

doi

10.1016/j.paid.2024.112566

Abstract

There is a growing understanding that emotion regulation (ER) abilities can be an important buffer for loneliness. However, most of this research is cross-sectional. Thus, it is unknown whether loneliness is associated with ER in momentary evaluations and can predict within-person changes in ER. We addressed these questions through ecological momentary assessment, where 169 Egyptian adults reported their loneliness and ER (social sharing, suppression, reappraisal, positive reframing, rumination) five times daily for 14 days. Loneliness negatively predicted social sharing at the within-person level and positively predicted rumination at the between-person level. However, loneliness was not linked to reappraisal, positive reframing, or suppression at the between or within-person levels. The results indicate that the global associations between loneliness and ER replicate previously established results for social sharing and rumination, but not suppression, reappraisal, or positive reframing in daily life. At the same time, the effects of loneliness on different strategies in daily life depend on whether they are at the within-person or between-person level.

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