Kvalitatiivne uurimustöö Emotsioonide regulatsioon ja stress
memory and consequently health and welfare of the individual then dysfunctional
regulation of emotions can lead to psychopathology. A total of 26 healthy, non
smoking male participants, age group 18-42 years were recruited into the study. Based
on the theory of Cybernetic 3-Dimensional Model on Emotion Regulation (CMER),
three dimensions of emotion regulation was measured. Participants were stressed
using the TSST test, and the salivary cortisol and plasma IL-6 was measured as
endocrinological markers of the stress response. Multiple regression and correlation
analysis were conducted investigating the main hypothesis. The results show that
hedonistic emotion regulation (HER) and the distress- augmentative emotion
regulation (DAR) were the predictors and AUCg (area under the curve in respect to
ground) and AUCi (area under the curve in respect to increase) were the dependent
variables. Participants, who scored high in HER showed lower cortisol responses,