Linguistic Distancing and Emotion Regulation: Theoretical, Developmental, and Translational Perspectives | Emotion Researcher

Psychological disorders, especially internalizing disorders like anxiety and depression, cause immense human and economic burden across the globe. Prior work shows that internalizing disorders are characterized by perturbations in emotion regulation (i.e., the strategies people use to change how they feel), with excessive use of maladaptive strategies that reduce short-term distress but maintain long-term impairment and insufficient use of adaptive strategies that allow individuals to escape...