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A round peg in a square hole: strategy-situation fit of intra- and interpersonal emotion regulation strategies and controllability

Zarah RowlandHannelore WeberThomas KubiakMario Wenzel

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AdultMaleEmotions05 social sciencesInterpersonal emotion regulationFlexibility (personality)050109 social psychologyExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyEmotional Adjustment050105 experimental psychologySquare (algebra)Emotional RegulationControllabilityYoung AdultArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Developmental and Educational PsychologyHumansFemaleInterpersonal Relations0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesLongitudinal StudiesStudentsPsychologyCognitive psychology

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Although the importance of contextual factors is often recognised, research on emotion regulation strategies (ERS) has mainly focused so far on the effectiveness of ERS across situations. In the present research, we tested the strategy-situation fit hypothesis, which does not assume general effectiveness of ERS but instead stresses the importance of the congruency between ERS and the contexts in which they are used. Using a longitudinal Ambulatory Assessment dataset (

https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1697209