Emotions, Emotion Regulation Strategies, Research, Self-control Experiment

The relationship of emotion and behavioral has been one of the major issues that researchers concern. Since the 1990s, research about emotion and self-control is gradually on the rise, especially focus on negative emotion. Other hand, the regulation of emotions has been new progress, but so far, it's not very clear that the understanding of the relationship between regulation and self-control. What is the mechanism for emotion and self-control? Whether emotion regulation effectively moderates the relationship of feelings and self-control? The answers to these questions will help a clear understanding of emotion and self-control, reduce the negative impact of emotion on behavior control, enhance individual self-management skills, and have great theoretical and practical significance.The experimental approach to the emotion state, emotion regulation and self-control were studied, specifically : Studyl,using randomly variance design, examined three groups of negative emotions, positive and neutral emotional on self-control; Study II using 2 (emotion ) × 2 (Regulation Strategy) experimental design, using variance analysis, under different emotional context, examined cognitive reappraisal ,expression suppression moderate the relationship of emotion and self-control.The results indicated that: emotional stimuli induced effectively different emotions; Emotion regulation strategies effectively influence negative emotional experienced; Neural emotion group in terms of self-control was significantly higher than negative and positive emotion group. Positive and negative emotion group have no significant difference on self-control. Emotion, emotional regulation strategy and self-control have interaction effect, under negative emotional state, expression suppression group scored significantly higher than cognitive reappraisal group, and the two groups scored no significantly effect in a positive emotional state.