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- April 2024
- Personality and Individual Differences
Loneliness and Emotion Regulation in Daily Life
By: Lameese Eldesouky, Amit Goldenberg and Kate Ellis
Abstract
There is a growing understanding that emotion regulation (ER) abilities can be an important buffer for loneliness. However, most of this research is cross-sectional. Thus, it is unknown whether loneliness is associated with ER in momentary evaluations and can predict within-person changes in ER. We addressed these questions through ecological momentary assessment, where 169 Egyptian adults reported their loneliness and ER (social sharing, suppression, reappraisal, positive reframing, rumination) five times daily for 14 days. Loneliness negatively predicted social sharing at the within-person level and positively predicted rumination at the between-person level. However, loneliness was not linked to reappraisal, positive reframing, or suppression at the between or within-person levels. The results indicate that the global associations between loneliness and ER replicate previously established results for social sharing and rumination, but not suppression, reappraisal, or positive reframing in daily life. At the same time, the effects of loneliness on different strategies in daily life depend on whether they are at the within-person or between-person level.
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Citation
Eldesouky, Lameese, Amit Goldenberg, and Kate Ellis. "Loneliness and Emotion Regulation in Daily Life." Art. 112566. Personality and Individual Differences 221 (April 2024).