文档介绍：Personality and Individual Differences 39 (2005) 1249–1260
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Cognitive emotion regulation in the prediction of
depression, anxiety, stress, and anger
Ryan C. Martin, Eric R. Dahlen *
Department of Psychology, The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive #5025,
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5025, USA
Received 14 October 2004; accepted 6 June 2005
Available online 2 August 2005
Abstract
Cognitive coping processes have long been implicated in the experience and expression of emotion.
Recently, a new instrument, the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (CERQ; Garnefski, Kraaij,
& Spinhoven, 2001), was developed to measure nine different cognitive coping strategies people often
use when faced with a negative event: self-blame, other blame, rumination, catastrophizing, acceptance,
putting into perspective, positive refocus, refocus on planning, and positive reappraisal. Although there
is substantial research exploring the relationships between these processes and depression, the research
on other negative emotions is much sparser. This study addresses this limitation by exploring the relation-
ships between the CERQ and depression, anxiety, stress, and anger. Results supported the convergent and
discriminant validity of the CERQ and demonstrated that, independent of respondent gender, self-blame,
rumination, catastrophizing, and positive reappraisal were among the most valuable predictors of negative
emotions.
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Keywords: Emotion regulation; Coping; Anger; Anxiety; Depression; Stress
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0. Introduction
Coping has long been considered relevant to both the experience and tr