[...]... the experience and management of chronic pain Goldman and Greenberg (chap 11) examine basic processes of emotional expressiveness and responsiveness, including the ways in which expressiveness and responsiveness relate to couple intimacy and distress Fruzzetti and Iverson (chap 12) accentuate the importance of understanding and intervening in emotion regulation processes in couples and families, particularly... toward understanding and explaining emotion regulation processes Chapters in Part II of the book explicate some of the basic empirical linkages of family interactions and their mental representations with biological predispositions and individual differences in emotions and emotion regulation In chapter 4, Mikulincer, Shaver, and Horesh present empirical evidence that indicates the way in which attachment... HUGHES, AND SNYDER targeting partner-assisted pain coping skills, which focuses on helping both patients experiencing persistent pain and their partners regulate emotional processes Their intervention protocol involves training in both up-regulating positive emotions as well as down-regulating negative ones Fruzzetti and Iverson (chap 12) focus on a number of intrapersonal and interpersonal emotion regulation. .. that is met to varying degrees by the authors in this volume For example, Valiente and Eisenberg (chap 6) achieve this when they distinguish between two aspects of emotion regulation that differ in voluntariness Cummings and Keller (chap 8) accomplish this by studying emotion regulation in one context (marital conflict) and interpreting their findings within the broader framework of the emotional security... models of emotion regulation processes and by the growing realization that poor or inappropriate regulation of emotions often constitutes a core component of common individual and interpersonal problems Indeed, the ability to effectively control and manage emotions during social interactions—especially interpersonally caustic negative emotions—may assume a pivotal role in keeping individuals and their... PhD, Department of Family and Human Development, Arizona State University, Tempe CONTRIBUTORS Emotion Regulation in Couples and Families INTRODUCTION: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO EMOTION REGULATION JEFFRY A SIMPSON, JAN N HUGHES, AND DOUGLAS K SNYDER In recent years, there has been growing interest in emotion regulation processes within different areas of psychology This interest has been sparked... to be involved in happier and better-functioning relationships, including romantic and family-based ones 3 From an applied standpoint, a deeper understanding of how emotion regulation processes operate in both community and clinical populations could eventually help practitioners to more effectively treat a wide range of interpersonal problems and disorders, many of which may originate, at least in part,... instances of regulating happiness, two instances each of regulating romantic attraction and excitement, and one of regulating interest, as well as a number of episodes involving the regulation of less clearly valenced emotional states (10%), with two instances each of regulating surprise, tiredness, and apathy, as well as one instance each of boredom, confusion, and shock Emotion Response Systems and. .. disciplines and have diverse theoretical perspectives regarding the role that emotion regulation processes might play in both healthy and dysfunctional outcomes, the book should be relevant to a broad range of people who share an interest in emotion regulation, including clinical and counseling psychologists, developmental psychologists, social and personality psychologists, and communication and family... interest in emotion regulation is a recent phenomenon and emotion regulation has broad relevance to many domains of human functioning across the life span (including emotional and physical health, learning, work, and social relationships), it is not surprising that a consensus definition of emotion regulation has not yet emerged Whereas some researchers decry the lack of theoretical consensus and operational . Cummings and Keller (chap. 8) accomplish this by studying emotion regulation in one context (marital conflict) and interpreting their findings within . findings indicating that interventions that help families establish or maintain family routines may enable families to better meet the demands