Comparación del Efecto Amortiguador de las Estrategias de Regulación ante la Sobrecarga Emocional

Abstract

In recent years, research about emotion regulation strategies has shown that there is no evidence of a better or eminently more adaptive strategy over others (Aldao, 2013;Tamir, 2021; Webb et al., 2012). On the contrary, it seems that its effectiveness would be linked to several individual (e.g., Hervás & Vázquez, 2011) and contextual (Aldao &Tull, 2015) factors that could affect the cost-benefit balance of each strategy, making it more or less adaptive in different situations (Tamir, 2021).Therefore, given that the context plays a key role in emotion regulation (Tamir,2021), having a flexible emotion regulation, that is, being able to deploy one strategy or another depending on the situation and needs, would seem to be the most adaptative option (Kobylińska & Kusev, 2019). However, to be able to do this, it is necessary to know what situational or contextual factors affect this process and what strategies would work best in each case. A highly frequent context in daily life, that has been barely studied out of the organizational field, is emotional overload. This phenomenon occurs in situations where people face multiple and consecutive negative events, without time to recover. In this context, it could happen that strategies that are effective in the short-term, may involve a greater effort in the medium and long-term, and, therefore, be counterproductive when the negative situation does not end immediately (Troy et al., 2017)...