"The effects of interpersonal emotional expression, partner responsiveness, and emotional approach coping on stress responses": Correction to Kane et al. (2018).

Emotion ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 1342-1342
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Approach Coping ◽  
Emotional Approach Coping ◽  
Emotional Approach ◽  
Partner Responsiveness

scholarly journals The effects of interpersonal emotional expression, partner responsiveness, and emotional approach coping on stress responses.

Emotion ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 1315-1328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi S. Kane ◽  
Joshua F. Wiley ◽  
Christine Dunkel Schetter ◽  
Theodore F. Robles
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Approach Coping ◽  
Emotional Approach Coping ◽  
Emotional Approach ◽  
Partner Responsiveness

Coping through Emotional Approach

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia I. Moreno ◽  
Joshua F. Wiley ◽  
Annette L. Stanton
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Emotional Processing ◽  
Intervention Studies ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Approach Coping ◽  
Emotional Approach Coping ◽  
Core Components ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Emotional Approach

Emotional approach coping (EAC) is a construct encompassing the intentional use of emotional processing and expression to manage adverse circumstances. Emotional processing is defined by attempts to acknowledge, explore, and understand one’s emotions, and emotional expression is defined by verbal/nonverbal efforts to communicate one’s emotional experience. Research demonstrates that EAC enhances adjustment to stressors, including infertility, sexual assault, diabetes, and cancer. In particular, findings suggest that EAC is most beneficial in response to uncontrollable stressors and in the context of receptive social environments. Although emotional processing and expression are core components of many clinical approaches, measurement of EAC within intervention studies is limited. Further study of the pathways by which EAC confers benefit also is needed. An improved understanding of who benefits from EAC in which contexts and how these benefits accrue will require continued integration of findings from stress and coping research, emotion science, and clinical studies.

Coping Through Emotional Approach: Emerging Evidence for the Utility of Processing and Expressing Emotions in Responding to Stressors

2009 ◽  
pp. 224-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette L. Stanton ◽  
Sarah J. Sullivan ◽  
Jennifer L. Austenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Emotional Processing ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Cognitive Appraisals ◽  
Clinical Intervention ◽  
Approach Coping ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Intervention Trials ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Emotional Approach

Emotional approach coping (EAC) is a construct encompassing the intentional use of emotional processing and emotional expression in efforts to manage adverse circumstances. The construct was developed in an attempt to reconcile a discrepancy between the empirical coping literature, in which an association between the use of emotion-focused coping and maladjustment often is reported, and literature in other areas describing the adaptive roles of emotional processing and expression. At least two significant limitations in the way emotion-focused coping has been operationalized help explain this discrepancy: widely disparate coping strategies, both approach-oriented and avoidance-oriented, are designated as emotion-focused coping in the literature, and some emotion-focused coping items in published measures are confounded with expressions of distress or self-deprecation. To address these problems in measurement, the EAC scale was developed. The measure includes two correlated but distinct subscales: Emotional Processing (i.e., attempts to acknowledge, explore, and understand emotions) and Emotional Expression (i.e., verbal and/or nonverbal efforts to communicate or symbolize emotional experience). Recent research using this psychometrically sound measure has provided evidence that EAC enhances adjustment to stressors including infertility, sexual assault, and breast cancer. The findings are not uniform, however, and further study of moderators such as the interpersonal context, the nature of the stressor, cognitive appraisals of the stressor, and individual differences is needed, along with additional study of mechanisms for the effects of EAC. Although emotional processing and expression are core components of many clinical approaches, specific measurement of EAC thus far has been limited to only a few clinical intervention trials. An understanding of who benefits from EAC in which contexts and how these benefits accrue will require continued integration of findings from stress and coping research, emotion science, and clinical studies.

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