TY - JOUR

T1 - This time it’s personal: reappraisal after acquired brain injury

AU - Rowlands, Leanne

AU - Coetzer, Rudi

AU - Turnbull, Oliver

N1 - EU Social Fund, project code (BUK2109)

PY - 2021/2/17

Y1 - 2021/2/17

N2 - Reappraisal is a widely investigated emotion regulation strategy, often impaired in those with acquired brain injury (ABI). Little is known, however, about the tools to measure this capacity in patients, who may find traditional reappraisal tasks difficult.Fifty-five participants with ABI, and thirty-five healthy controls (HCs), completedreappraisal tasks with personal and impersonal emotion elicitation components,questionnaires measuring reappraisal (the ERQ-CA), and neuropsychologicalassessment. The main findings demonstrated that both groups produced morereappraisals, and rated their reappraisal ideas as more effective for personal stimuli. The ABI group were significantly faster to generate reappraisals for personal, compared to impersonal, stimuli. Yet, participants with ABI performed worse than HCs on the majority of reappraisal components, across both reappraisal tasks.Results of regression analyses revealed significant relationships between certainmeasures of cognitive control and certain reappraisal components, which varied for the personal and impersonal reappraisal task. Notably, while inhibition predicted aspects of reappraisal in both the ABI and HC group, working memory was only related to reappraisal in participants with ABI. The study suggests that personal context plays a key role in reappraisal, and proposes a model to better understand the role of cognitive control across the reappraisal process.

AB - Reappraisal is a widely investigated emotion regulation strategy, often impaired in those with acquired brain injury (ABI). Little is known, however, about the tools to measure this capacity in patients, who may find traditional reappraisal tasks difficult.Fifty-five participants with ABI, and thirty-five healthy controls (HCs), completedreappraisal tasks with personal and impersonal emotion elicitation components,questionnaires measuring reappraisal (the ERQ-CA), and neuropsychologicalassessment. The main findings demonstrated that both groups produced morereappraisals, and rated their reappraisal ideas as more effective for personal stimuli. The ABI group were significantly faster to generate reappraisals for personal, compared to impersonal, stimuli. Yet, participants with ABI performed worse than HCs on the majority of reappraisal components, across both reappraisal tasks.Results of regression analyses revealed significant relationships between certainmeasures of cognitive control and certain reappraisal components, which varied for the personal and impersonal reappraisal task. Notably, while inhibition predicted aspects of reappraisal in both the ABI and HC group, working memory was only related to reappraisal in participants with ABI. The study suggests that personal context plays a key role in reappraisal, and proposes a model to better understand the role of cognitive control across the reappraisal process.

KW - Emotion regulation

KW - reappraisal

KW - cognitive control

KW - brain injury

KW - neurorehabilitation

U2 - 10.1080/02699931.2020.1839384

DO - 10.1080/02699931.2020.1839384

M3 - Article

VL - 35

SP - 305

EP - 323

JO - Cognition and Emotion

JF - Cognition and Emotion

SN - 0269-9931

IS - 2

ER -