Environmental Strategies of Affect Regulation and Their Associations With Subjective Well-Being

Environmental strategies of affect regulation refer to the use of natural and urban socio-physical settings in the service of regulation. We investigated the perceived use and efficacy of environmental strategies for regulation of general affect and sadness, considering them in relation to other aff...

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Published in:Frontiers in psychology 2018-04, Vol.9, p.562-562
Main Authors: Korpela, Kalevi M, Pasanen, Tytti, Repo, Veera, Hartig, Terry, Staats, Henk, Mason, Michael, Alves, Susana, Fornara, Ferdinando, Marks, Tony, Saini, Sunil, Scopelliti, Massimiliano, Soares, Ana L, Stigsdotter, Ulrika K, Ward Thompson, Catharine
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Language:English
Subjects:
affect regulation
coping strategy
emotional well-being
life satisfaction
natural places
perceived efficacy
perceived health
Psychology
urban places
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Summary:Environmental strategies of affect regulation refer to the use of natural and urban socio-physical settings in the service of regulation. We investigated the perceived use and efficacy of environmental strategies for regulation of general affect and sadness, considering them in relation to other affect regulation strategies and to subjective well-being. Participants from Australia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, India, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden ( = 507) evaluated the frequency of use and perceived efficacy of affect regulation strategies using a modified version of the Measure of Affect Regulation Styles (MARS). The internet survey also included the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), emotional well-being items from the RAND 36-Item Health Survey, and a single-item measure of perceived general health. Environmental regulation formed a separate factor of affect regulation in the exploratory structural equation models (ESEM). Although no relations of environmental strategies with emotional well-being were found, both the perceived frequency of use and efficacy of environmental strategies were positively related to perceived health. Moreover, the perceived efficacy of environmental strategies was positively related to life satisfaction in regulating sadness. The results encourage more explicit treatment of environmental strategies in research on affect regulation.
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00562