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Attentional deployment
A family of emotion regulation strategies in the process model that changes which aspects of a situation receive attention, including distraction and concentration. In a meta-analysis of experiments, distraction was effective in the short term, whereas concentrating on one's feelings was not. Repeatedly directing attention to the cause of distress overlaps with rumination. Gross's process model sorts regulation strategies by when they act on an emotion, and the extended model adds how strategies are chosen. This essay explains both, the evidence on strategy effects, and where venting and reappraisal sit. The works the definition rests on, with the level of evidence each was appraised at. (1998). The emerging field of emotion regulation: An integrative review. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.2.3.271 Supports definitions and the five-point process model used across the library. A conceptual framework, not a test of which strategies work. (2012). Dealing with feeling: A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of strategies derived from the process model of emotion regulation. doi:10.1037/a0027600 Supports the claims that cognitive change had a small-to-medium effect, distraction was effective, concentration on feelings was not, and suppressing the experience of emotion was ineffective. Effects come from short laboratory inductions and vary with moderators.Where the site uses it
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