New meta-analysis on the relationship between emotion regulation and social processes

A new meta-analysis on the relationship between emotion regulation and social affect and social cognition was published by Maike Salazar Kämpf, Luisa Adam, Margund Rohr, Cornelia Exner, and Cornelia Wieck in Clinical Psychological Science. The abilities to understand other people's emotions, to experience their emotions vicariously, and to show compassion, i.e., our socio-affective and socio-cognitive processes, are important for successful and satisfying social interactions. Researchers have suggested that different forms of emotion regulation can promote or inhibit these socio-affective and sociocognitive processes. This meta-analysis shows that adaptive forms of emotion regulation are positively related to cognitive empathy, affective empathy, and compassion, and negatively related to empathic distress. Maladaptive emotion regulation, on the other hand, is negatively related to cognitive empathy and positively related to empathic stress.

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