scholarly journals The late positive potential predicts emotion regulation strategy use in school-aged children concurrently and two years later

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 832-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Babkirk ◽  
Victor Rios ◽  
Tracy A. Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Late Positive Potential ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategy

Comparable Modulation of the Late Positive Potential by Emotion Regulation in Younger and Older Adults

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra J. E. Langeslag ◽  
Jan W. Van Strien
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Late Positive Potential ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Apparent Discrepancy ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
Psychophysiological Responses ◽  
Psychophysiological Measures ◽  
Emotional Pictures

It has been suggested that emotion regulation improves with aging. Here, we investigated age differences in emotion regulation by studying modulation of the late positive potential (LPP) by emotion regulation instructions. The electroencephalogram of younger (18–26 years) and older (60–77 years) adults was recorded while they viewed neutral, unpleasant, and pleasant pictures and while they were instructed to increase or decrease the feelings that the emotional pictures elicited. The LPP was enhanced when participants were instructed to increase their emotions. No age differences were observed in this emotion regulation effect, suggesting that emotion regulation abilities are unaffected by aging. This contradicts studies that measured emotion regulation by self-report, yet accords with studies that measured emotion regulation by means of facial expressions or psychophysiological responses. More research is needed to resolve the apparent discrepancy between subjective self-report and objective psychophysiological measures.

scholarly journals Altered emotion regulation in obsessive–compulsive disorder as evidenced by the late positive potential

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Paul ◽  
D. Simon ◽  
T. Endrass ◽  
N. Kathmann
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Sustained Attention ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Late Positive Potential ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Emotional Stimuli ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
Compulsive Disorder

Background.Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with marked anxiety, which triggers repetitive behaviours or mental rituals. The persistence of pathological anxiety and maladaptive strategies to reduce anxiety point to altered emotion regulation. The late positive potential (LPP) is an event-related brain potential (ERP) that reflects sustained attention to emotional stimuli and is sensitive to emotion-regulation instructions. We hypothesized that patients with OCD show altered electrocortical responses during reappraisal of stimuli triggering their symptoms.Method.To test our hypothesis, ERPs to disorder-relevant, generally aversive and neutral pictures were recorded while participants were instructed to either maintain or reduce emotional responding using cognitive distraction or cognitive reappraisal.Results.Relative to healthy controls, patients with OCD showed enhanced LPPs in response to disorder-relevant pictures, indicating their prioritized processing. While both distraction and reappraisal successfully reduced the LPP in healthy controls, patients with OCD failed to show corresponding LPP modulation during cognitive reappraisal despite successfully reduced subjective arousal ratings.Conclusions.The results point to sustained attention towards emotional stimuli during cognitive reappraisal in OCD and suggest that abnormal emotion regulation should be integrated in models of OCD.

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