Emotion regulation in response to daily negative and positive events in youth: The role of event intensity and psychopathology.

Abstract in brief

• The study explores how young people regulate their emotions in response to everyday positive and negative events, focusing on how the intensity of these events and mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and psychotic symptoms influence their regulation strategies.
• Results show that more intense negative events lead youths to use a wider variety of emotion regulation strategies, especially rumination, while reducing their use of reappraisal and acceptance. Conversely, intense positive events are linked with increased savoring, emotion expression, and sharing.
• Higher levels of psychopathology are mainly associated with increased rumination about negative events, highlighting the importance of context in shaping how young people manage their emotions based on the situation's intensity and their mental health status.]