Diskuze v psychologii 2020, 2(1):23-32 | DOI: 10.5507/dvp.2020.005

Can we study emotion regulation via qualitative analysis? Current status and future prospects

Branislav Uhrecký
Ústav aplikovanej psychológie, Fakulta sociálnych a ekonomických vied, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave

The research of emotion regulation is one of the most advanced areas of academic psychology. It has been influenced by the process model of emotion regulation (Gross, 1998) so greatly that this model might be considered a research paradigm. Large number of experimental and correlational studies was inspired by it, but in the course of time, limits of the emotion regulation study under strictly controlled conditions were pointed out. Critical voices have been raising regarding the adequacy of knowledge that is brought by research under the process model paradigm, especially with concerns to implicit and spontaneous forms of emotion regulation, and social context in which it takes place. It is precisely this critic that opens up space for qualitative research. The goal of this review article is to examine present status of qualitative study of emotion regulation and to suggest a possible future directions of research.

Keywords: interpersonal emotion regulation; qualitative research; content analysis; process model

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