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The relationship between executive function and emotional regulation through emotional clarity

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2020, 33(2), pp.87-102
  • DOI : 10.35574/KJDP.2020.6.33.2.87
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science
  • Received : April 15, 2020
  • Accepted : May 29, 2020
  • Published : June 15, 2020

InYoung Choi 1 Jeong, Yoonkyung 2

1카톨릭대학교 상담심리대학원 아동상담학과 석사
2가톨릭대학교 심리학과 교수

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of executive function on emotional regulation and emotional clarity, and to explore whether emotional clarity mediates the relationship between executive function and emotional regulation in early adulthood. For this purpose, an operation span task(OSPAN)(Kane et at., 2001) was applied to 101 participants in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do to measure execution function, and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire(ERQ) and Trait Meta-Mood Scale(TMMS) were used to measure emotional regulation(reappraisal and suppression) and emotional clarity. Study results showed executive function had a significant relationship with both sub-variants of emotional regulation, ‘reappraisal and suppression’, and emotional clarity. The higher the level of executive function, the more clearly were emotions recognized, and the more ‘reappraisal’, rather than ‘suppression’, was used. In addition, emotional clarity was found to mediated executive function and reappraisal. The results of this study suggest that cognitive competence, including executive function, is a major variable explaining individual differences in emotional regulation, even after adolescence and into early adulthood.

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