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Digital emotion regulation:
How can digital tools and technologies be used to help manage emotions?
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Overview

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The Overview is typically consists of one to four paragraphs inbetween the scenario and focus questions. Suggested word count aim for the Overview: 180 to 330 words.

Scenario: It's late at night and none of your friends are awake but you're feeling stressed. You reach into your pocket, take out your phone, and open the headspace app. You engage in a mindfulness meditation exercise and immediately feel better and can head to sleep...

 
Figure 1: Headspace app logo

Digital tools and technologies are being further implemented into our daily lives as the years pass. Similarly, mental health issues are on the rise. So imagine being able to utilise these digital tools and technology in order to manage our emotions and potentially minimise our risk of experiencing mental disregulation and disorder? That is what this webpage aims to explore. There have been many digital tools which have been created to help people to regulate their emotions, with features ranging from mindfulness and meditation, to everyday journaling applications. These tools are created with ease of access, with the majority of the applications being available via mobile phones for use at home or on the go. Let's explore these themes further throughout this chapter. etc etc need to edit more/think of how i want to introduce properly

Focus questions:

  • What are digital tools and technology?
  • What is emotion regulation?
  • How can these digital tools assist emotion regulation?


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  • Engage the reader with a scenario, example, or case study, and an accompanying image
  • Explain the problem and why it is important
  • Outline how psychological science can help
  • Present focus questions

Focus questions: Break the problem (i.e., the sub-title) down into three to five focus questions. Focus questions can also be used as top-level headings.

  • What is the first focus question?
  • What is the second focus question?
  • What is the third focus question?

Ask open-ended focus questions. For example:

  • Is there a relationship between motivation and success? (closed-ended)  
  • What is the relationship between motivation and success? (open-ended)  

Headings

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  • Aim for three to six main headings inbetween the Overview and Conclusion
  • Sub-headings can also be used, but
    • avoid having sections with only one sub-heading
    • provide an introductory paragraph before breaking into sub-sections

What is emotion regulation (ER)?

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  • Emotion regulation refers to the processes by which an individual monitors, evaluates, and changes emotional responses, with an emphasis on doing so to achieve a specific goal (Gross, 2015)

What are digital tools and technologies?

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  • possible include a table showing a bunch of examples of apps you can used based on what you're after for regulation?

Which digital tools and technologies can people access?

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What do these tools have to offer for emotion regulation?

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  • mood and gratitude journaling
  • mindfulness and meditation activities
  • medication reminders
  • lifestyle tracking

Psychological theories found within digital emotion regulation tools

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

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  • especially found in the moodfit app
  • " focuses on challenging and changing cognitive distortions (such as thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes) and their associated behaviors to improve emotional regulation" (wikipedia)

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)

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  • program run for several weeks to reduce stress via mindfulness
  • 8 weeks?
  • help individuals manage stress,pain, anxiety, depression

Process model of emotion regulation

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  • presented by Gross (1998)
  • emotional response tendencies are often modulated


Test yourself below!

1 Mindfulness meditation apps can reduce anxiety levels:

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False

2 CBT is bad for you:

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False


What research supports that digital tools are effective in managing emotions?

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  • Provide at least three bullet-points per headingʔ and sub-heading, including for the Overview and Conclusion
  • Include key citations

Figures

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Figure 2. Example of an image with a descriptive caption.
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Learning features

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Tables
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Table 1. Descriptive Caption Which Explains The Table and its Relevant to the Text - Johari Window Model

Known to self Not known to self
Known to others Open area Blind spot
Not known to others Hidden area Unknown
Quizzes
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Example simple quiz questions. Choose your answers and click "Submit":

1 Quizzes are an interactive learning feature:

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2 Long quizzes are a good idea:

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Conclusion

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  • The Conclusion is arguably the most important section
  • Suggested word count: 150 to 330 words
  • It should be possible for someone to only read the Overview and the Conclusion and still get a pretty good idea of the problem and what is known based on psychological science

  Suggestions for this section:

  • What is the answer to the sub-title question based on psychological theory and research?
  • What are the answers to the focus questions?
  • What are the practical, take-home messages? (Even for the topic development, have a go at the likely take-home message)

See also

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Provide internal (wiki) links to the most relevant Wikiversity pages (esp. related motivation and emotion book chapters) and Wikipedia articles. Use these formats:

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  • Present in alphabetical order
  • Use sentence casing
  • Include the source in parentheses

References

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List cited references in APA style (7th ed.) or wiki style.

APA style example:

Rosenberg, B. D., & Siegel, J. T. (2018). A 50-year review of psychological reactance theory: Do not read this article. Motivation Science, 4(4), 281–300. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000091

Possible references - i know I need to make proper APA style/links will do as I progress!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8846444/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9489858/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jad.12259

https://www.linkedin.com/advice/3/how-can-digital-tools-used-improve-emotional

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581922001732

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0963721420920592

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37811912/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958822000264

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    • Year of publication in parentheses
    • Title of work in lower case except first letter and proper names, ending in a full-stop
    • Journal title in italics, volume number in italics, issue number in parentheses, first and last page numbers separated by an en-dash(–), followed by a full-stop
    • Provide the full doi as a URL and working hyperlink
  • The most common mistakes include:
    • Incorrect capitalisation
    • Incorrect italicisation
    • Citing sources that weren't read or consulted

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