"Keep calm and carry on": structural correlates of expressive suppression of emotions.
There is a growing appreciation that individuals differ systematically in their use of particular emotion regulation strategies. Our aim was to examine the structural correlates of the habitual use of expressive suppression of emotions. Based on our previous research on the voluntary suppression of...
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| description | There is a growing appreciation that individuals differ systematically in their use of particular emotion regulation strategies. Our aim was to examine the structural correlates of the habitual use of expressive suppression of emotions. Based on our previous research on the voluntary suppression of actions we expected this response-focused emotion regulation strategy to be associated with increased grey matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC). On high-resolution MRI scans of 42 college-aged healthy adults we computed optimized voxel-based-morphometry (VBM) to explore the correlation between grey matter volume and inter-individual differences in the tendency to suppress the expression of emotions assessed by means of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross & John, 2003). We found a positive correlation between the habitual use of expressive suppression as an emotion regulation strategy and grey matter volume in the dmPFC. No other brain area showed a significant positive or negative correlation with the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire scores. The association between the suppression of expression of emotions and volume in the dmPFC supports the behavioural stability and biological foundation of the concept of this particular emotion regulation strategy within an age-homogenous sample of adults. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0e4fdad3c11c4a10b35351a90bdab86a2022-12-21T22:53:03ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032011-01-0161e1656910.1371/journal.pone.0016569"Keep calm and carry on": structural correlates of expressive suppression of emotions.Simone KühnJürgen GallinatMarcel BrassThere is a growing appreciation that individuals differ systematically in their use of particular emotion regulation strategies. Our aim was to examine the structural correlates of the habitual use of expressive suppression of emotions. Based on our previous research on the voluntary suppression of actions we expected this response-focused emotion regulation strategy to be associated with increased grey matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC). On high-resolution MRI scans of 42 college-aged healthy adults we computed optimized voxel-based-morphometry (VBM) to explore the correlation between grey matter volume and inter-individual differences in the tendency to suppress the expression of emotions assessed by means of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross & John, 2003). We found a positive correlation between the habitual use of expressive suppression as an emotion regulation strategy and grey matter volume in the dmPFC. No other brain area showed a significant positive or negative correlation with the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire scores. The association between the suppression of expression of emotions and volume in the dmPFC supports the behavioural stability and biological foundation of the concept of this particular emotion regulation strategy within an age-homogenous sample of adults.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3027672?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Simone Kühn Jürgen Gallinat Marcel Brass "Keep calm and carry on": structural correlates of expressive suppression of emotions. PLoS ONE |
| title | "Keep calm and carry on": structural correlates of expressive suppression of emotions. |
| title_full | "Keep calm and carry on": structural correlates of expressive suppression of emotions. |
| title_fullStr | "Keep calm and carry on": structural correlates of expressive suppression of emotions. |
| title_full_unstemmed | "Keep calm and carry on": structural correlates of expressive suppression of emotions. |
| title_short | "Keep calm and carry on": structural correlates of expressive suppression of emotions. |
| title_sort | keep calm and carry on structural correlates of expressive suppression of emotions |
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