Reduced effective emotion regulation in night owls

TY - JOUR

T1 - Reduced effective emotion regulation in night owls

AU - Watts, Alexandra, Lucy

AU - Norbury, Ray

PY - 2017/6/19

Y1 - 2017/6/19

N2 - Previous research has demonstrated a clear link between late chronotype and depression. The vulnerability factors underpinning this link, however, are unclear. Here the relationship between two specific emotion regulation strategies, cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, and chronotype was investigated using multiple regression. Two hundred and fourty participants (age range 18- 80, 189 females) completed validated self-report questionnaires assaying chronotype, neuroticism, depression symptomatology, sleep quality and emotion regulation. Eveningness was associated increased expressive suppression (maladaptive) and morningness was associated with increased cognitive reappraisal (adaptive) after controlling for age, gender, depressive symptomatology, neuroticism and sleep quality. Trait expressive suppression and reduced cognitive reappraisal are known to increase depression risk. Our results suggest that eveningness is associated with impaired emotion regulation which may confer risk for future depression. These findings suggest modifiable markers that could be therapeutically targeted to prevent the onset of depression in late chronotype individuals. © 2017, The Author(s). This is an author produced version of a paper published in the Journal of Biological Rhythms, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730417709111. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

AB - Previous research has demonstrated a clear link between late chronotype and depression. The vulnerability factors underpinning this link, however, are unclear. Here the relationship between two specific emotion regulation strategies, cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, and chronotype was investigated using multiple regression. Two hundred and fourty participants (age range 18- 80, 189 females) completed validated self-report questionnaires assaying chronotype, neuroticism, depression symptomatology, sleep quality and emotion regulation. Eveningness was associated increased expressive suppression (maladaptive) and morningness was associated with increased cognitive reappraisal (adaptive) after controlling for age, gender, depressive symptomatology, neuroticism and sleep quality. Trait expressive suppression and reduced cognitive reappraisal are known to increase depression risk. Our results suggest that eveningness is associated with impaired emotion regulation which may confer risk for future depression. These findings suggest modifiable markers that could be therapeutically targeted to prevent the onset of depression in late chronotype individuals. © 2017, The Author(s). This is an author produced version of a paper published in the Journal of Biological Rhythms, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730417709111. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

UR - https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/4jxb5

U2 - 10.17605/OSF.IO/PU4J2

DO - 10.17605/OSF.IO/PU4J2

M3 - Article

SN - 0748-7304

VL - 32

SP - 369

JO - Journal of Biological Rhythms

JF - Journal of Biological Rhythms

IS - 4

ER -