Emotional Regulation and Cognitive Flexibility in Young Adults

By : Surabhi Ghosh, Susmita Halder

Page No: 609-617

Abstract
Young adulthood is viewed as a time of growth, development, and uncertainty. Generally, time and again young adults get through stress as they get used to the responsibilities that come with functioning, living, and working in the real world. Impulsivity and poor decision-making capacities often become apparent in young adulthood. Emotion regulation can be delineated while the appliance through which individuals adjust their emotions to achieve a desired outcome. Studies ground in that maladaptive emotion regulation strategies are an important role in the development and maintenance of psychopathology; vary with self-regulation goals during periods of emotional distress. Cognitive flexibility is the human ability to adapt the cognitive processing strategies to face new and unexpected conditions in the environment and can play a role in proper emotional regulation ability. Present study examined the relationship between cognitive flexibility and emotion regulation in 30 young adults in the age range of 18-25 years of both sexes. Emotional Regulation Questionnaire and neuropsychological test were administered to assess the domains. Finding suggests that there is a significant relation between Emotional Regulation and Cognitive Flexibility in young adults and most of the young adults are using cognitive reappraisal in emotional regulation process.

Authors :
Surabhi Ghosh : M. Phil. Trainee Clinical Psychology – Department of Clinical Psychology,Amity University Kolkata, West Bengal.
Susmita Halder : Associate Professor – Department of Clinical Psychology,Amity University Kolkata, West Bengal.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2020.15.02.22