000K utf8 1100 2022$c2022-03 1500 eng 2050 urn:nbn:de:gbv:27-dbt-20230327-231007-003 2051 10.1007/s42761-021-00087-1 3000 Blanke, Elisabeth S. 3010 Bellingtier, Jennifer A. 3010 Brose, Annette 3010 Riediger, Michaela 4000 When and How to Regulate$dEveryday Emotion-Regulation Strategy Use and Stressor Intensity [Blanke, Elisabeth S.] 4060 12 Seiten 4209 Contextual factors shape emotion regulation (ER). The intensity of emotional stimuli may be such a contextual factor that influences the selection and moderates the effectiveness of ER strategies in reducing negative affect (NA). Prior research has shown that, on average, when emotional stimuli were more intense, distraction was selected over reappraisal (and vice versa). This pattern was previously shown to be adaptive as the preferred strategies were more efficient in the respective contexts. Here, we investigated whether stressor intensity predicted strategy use and effectiveness in similar ways in daily life. We examined five ER strategies (reappraisal, reflection, acceptance, distraction, and rumination) in relation to the intensity of everyday stressors, using two waves of experience-sampling data ( N  = 156). In accordance with our hypotheses, reappraisal, reflection, and acceptance were used less, and rumination was used more, when stressors were more intense. Moreover, results suggested that distraction was more effective, and rumination more detrimental the higher the stressor intensity. Against our hypotheses, distraction did not covary with stressor intensity, and there was no evidence that reappraisal, reflection, and acceptance were more effective at lower levels of stressor intensity. Instead, when examined individually, reflection and reappraisal (like distraction) were more effective at higher levels of stressor intensity. In sum, stressor intensity predicted ER selection and moderated strategy effectiveness, but the results also point to a more complex ER strategy use in daily life than in the laboratory. 4950 https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00087-1$xR$3Volltext$534 4950 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:27-dbt-20230327-231007-003$xR$3Volltext$534 4961 https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00056536 5051 150 5550 Emotion regulation choice 5550 Emotion regulation flexibility 5550 Experience sampling 5550 Situation-strategy fit (5/6) 5550 Stressor intensity