Exploring Dynamic and Reciprocal Within-Person Relations Between Emotion Regulation and Affect at Work: A Continuous Time Modeling Approach
Abstract
Effective emotion regulation is an important antecedent of emotional wellbeing in general, and in specific contexts, including the workplace. The impact of emotion regulation strategies, such as cognitive reappraisal and behavioral suppression, on short-term experiences of positive and negative affect (e.g., across several days or weeks) is rather well understood. In contrast, we know far less about the longer-term processes (e.g., across several months or years) by which the use of these strategies influence affect and vice versa. Based upon theories of emotion regulation, reappraisal and suppression emotion regulation strategies and positive and negative affect are posited to dynamically influence each other through a continuous process that unfolds within- person and over time. Using 47 waves of longitudinal data collected across 53 months from a sample of n = 1,458 full-time employed individuals in Germany, we hypothesize and test two distinct reinforcing “cycles” between cognitive reappraisal and positive affect, and between behavioral suppression and negative affect, respectively, in the work context. Results of continuous time modeling suggest evidence for both a “virtuous” cycle, wherein cognitive reappraisal is associated with higher subsequent levels of positive affect, and vice versa, and a “vicious” cycle, wherein behavioral suppression is associated with subsequently higher levels of negative affect, and vice versa.
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BibTeX
@misc{rudolph2026exploring,
title = {{Exploring Dynamic and Reciprocal Within-Person Relations Between Emotion Regulation and Affect at Work: A Continuous Time Modeling Approach}},
author = {Cort W. Rudolph and Amelia Wilcox and Hannes Zacher},
howpublished = {PsyArXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.31234/osf.io/tg3va_v2},
url = {https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/tg3va_v2/},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Exploring Dynamic and Reciprocal Within-Person Relations Between Emotion Regulation and Affect at Work: A Continuous Time Modeling Approach
AU - Cort W. Rudolph
AU - Amelia Wilcox
AU - Hannes Zacher
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/04
PB - PsyArXiv
DO - 10.31234/osf.io/tg3va_v2
UR - https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/tg3va_v2/
AB - Effective emotion regulation is an important antecedent of emotional wellbeing in general, and in specific contexts, including the workplace. The impact of emotion regulation strategies, such as cognitive reappraisal and behavioral suppression, on short-term experiences of positive and negative affect (e.g., across several days or weeks) is rather well understood. In contrast, we know far less about the longer-term processes (e.g., across several months or years) by which the use of these strategies influence affect and vice versa. Based upon theories of emotion regulation, reappraisal and suppression emotion regulation strategies and positive and negative affect are posited to dynamically influence each other through a continuous process that unfolds within- person and over time. Using 47 waves of longitudinal data collected across 53 months from a sample of n = 1,458 full-time employed individuals in Germany, we hypothesize and test two distinct reinforcing “cycles” between cognitive reappraisal and positive affect, and between behavioral suppression and negative affect, respectively, in the work context. Results of continuous time modeling suggest evidence for both a “virtuous” cycle, wherein cognitive reappraisal is associated with higher subsequent levels of positive affect, and vice versa, and a “vicious” cycle, wherein behavioral suppression is associated with subsequently higher levels of negative affect, and vice versa.
ER -