andrei.ion@fpse.unibuc.ro
Maria D. Postelnicu1,2, Oana Istrate1,2, Dragoș Iliescu1,2, Andrei Ion1,2*
1 Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
2 Assessment and Individual Differences Lab – AID Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Abstract
The present work investigated the dynamic relations between affect, with both its positive and negative dimensions, and interpersonal emotion regulation. Drawing from a sample of 220 participants completing surveys on four consecutive days, we used the random intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM) to investigate the associations between positive and negative affect and interpersonal emotion regulation. The results of RI-CLPM demonstrated a bidirectional association between positive affect and interpersonal emotion regulation. Interpersonal emotional regulation did not predict the next day’s negative affect. However, negative affect predicted future deployment of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies. Use of interpersonal emotion regulation at one time point predicts its subsequent use. Our findings highlight the importance disentangling the within-person effects when examining the relationship between positive and negative affect and interpersonal emotion regulation.
Keywords: positive affect, negative affect, interpersonal emotion regulation, daily reciprocal associations, random-intercept cross-lagged panel model.
Please cite this article as:
Postelnicu, M. D., Istrate, O., Iliescu, D., & Ion, A. (2025). Does Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Really Help?! Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Affect Through the Lense of a Daily Diary Investigation. Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies, 25(2), 31-48.
DOI: 10.24193/jebp.2025.2.10
Published online: 2025/09/01
Published print: 2025/09/01
