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Regulatory Flexibility: An Individual Differences Perspective on Coping and Emotion Regulation.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Bonanno, George A. Burton, Charles L. |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | People respond to stressful events in different ways, depending on the event and on the regulatory strategies they choose. Coping and emotion regulation theorists have proposed dynamic models in which these two factors, the person and the situation, interact over time to inform adaptation. In practice, however, researchers have tended to assume that particular regulatory strategies are consistently beneficial or maladaptive. We label this assumption the fallacy of uniform efficacy and contrast it with findings from a number of related literatures that have suggested the emergence of a broader but as yet poorly defined construct that we refer to as regulatory flexibility. In this review, we articulate this broader construct and define both its features and limitations. Specifically, we propose a heuristic individual differences framework and review research on three sequential components of flexibility for which propensities and abilities vary: sensitivity to context, availability of a diverse repertoire of regulatory strategies, and responsiveness to feedback. We consider the methodological limitations of research on each component, review questions that future research on flexibility might address, and consider how the components might relate to each other and to broader conceptualizations about stability and change across persons and situations. |
| Starting Page | 591 |
| Ending Page | 612 |
| Page Count | 22 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1177/1745691613504116 |
| PubMed reference number | 26173226 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 8 |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/gab38/faculty-profile/files/2013_Bonanno_Burton_REGULATORY_FLEXIBLITY.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.tc.columbia.edu/media/centers/lte-lab/peered-review-journals/2013/28662_2013_Bonanno_Burton_REGULATORY_FLEXIBLITY.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.tc.columbia.edu/i/a/document/28662_2013_Bonanno_Burton_REGULATORY_FLEXIBLITY.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://disastermh.nebraska.edu/conferences/2013greatplainsdisaster/documents/in%20press_Bonanno%20&%20Burton_REGULATORY%20FLEXIBLITY.PDF |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691613504116 |
| Journal | Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
