The effects of acceptance and suppression on anticipation and receipt of painful stimulation

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Barbara R BraamsJames J Gross

Abstract

Previous research has found that in some contexts, suppression increases distress, whereas acceptance decreases distress. It is not clear, however, whether these two common forms of emotion regulation have comparable or divergent physiological and behavioral effects during the anticipation and receipt of a painful stimulus. To address this issue, we randomized participants to suppression, acceptance, or no instruction control groups, and assessed their cardiovascular and behavioral responses while they anticipated and then received electric shocks. Findings revealed that compared to the control condition (1) acceptance and suppression led to comparable reductions in pain reports and cardiac defense responses; and (2) acceptance led to greater reductions in reports of anticipatory anxiety than suppression. The current study tested only two emotion regulation techniques in the context of a pain-inducing stimulus that has limited ecological validity. In contrast to previous research, we found that both acceptance and suppression are effective in reducing pain and anxiety in response to experimentally induced pain.

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Citations

Oct 9, 2013·European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience·Sigrid ScherpietUwe Herwig
Dec 3, 2014·Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry·Jens BlechertJames J Gross
Mar 29, 2016·Journal of Affective Disorders·Lisa HopfingerDavid D Ebert
Mar 19, 2015·Biological Psychology·Elise S Dan-Glauser, James J Gross
Jun 10, 2014·Frontiers in Psychology·Gabriele BuruckDenise Dörfel
Jan 28, 2017·Behaviour Research and Therapy·Shian-Ling KengMoria J Smoski
Dec 16, 2017·Journal of Clinical Psychology·Christian Aljoscha LukasMatthias Berking
Jun 4, 2020·Pain Medicine : the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine·Omeed GhandehariDavid A Clark
Jul 23, 2020·Frontiers in Psychology·Valentina HaspertPhilipp Reicherts

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