Prohedonic Emotion Regulation Goals in Everyday Life: How Increasing Positive Affect and Reducing Negative Affect Relate to the Emotion Regulation Process and Depression
Alison B. Tuck, Gigi A. Taillon, Renee J. Thompson · 2026
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Alison B. Tuck and colleagues tracked, moment by moment, how two kinds of feel-good emotion goals play out in daily life. Prohedonic regulation means steering feelings toward pleasure, either by lifting positive feelings or by cutting negative ones, but studies often lump the two together. Their 2026 study surveyed 179 adults five times a day for 14 days about the day's key event, their emotion goals, effort, difficulty, and success.
Goals to cut negative feelings were more common, and came with higher effort and difficulty but no extra success. Goals to lift or hold positive feelings came with lower difficulty and higher success, but no link to effort. Depression only changed one link: it strengthened the tie between holding positive feelings and feeling successful. The authors urge researchers and therapists to separate the two goal types.
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| CREATOR | Alison B. Tuck, Gigi A. Taillon, Renee J. Thompson |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |