The double-edged sword of social sharing : social sharing predicts increased emotion differentiation when rumination is low but decreased emotion differentiation when rumination is high
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- Laura Sels (UGent) , Yasemin Erbas, Sarah T. O'Brien, Lesley Verhofstadt (UGent) , Margaret S. Clark and Elise K. Kalokerinos
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- Laypeople believe that sharing their emotional experiences with others will improve their understanding of those experiences, but no clear empirical evidence supports this belief. To address this gap, we used data from four daily life studies (N = 659; student and community samples) to explore the association between social sharing and subsequent emotion differentiation, which involves labeling emotions with a high degree of complexity. Contrary to our expectations, we found that social sharing of emotional experiences was linked to greater subsequent emotion differentiation on occasions when people ruminated less than usual about these experiences. In contrast, on occasions when people ruminated more than usual about their experiences, social sharing of these experiences was linked to lower emotion differentiation. These effects held when we controlled for levels of negative emotion. Our findings suggest that putting feelings into words through sharing may only enable emotional precision when that sharing occurs without dwelling or perseverating.
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- CO-RUMINATION, CONSEQUENCES, EXPERIENCE, RECOVERY, BENEFITS, MOTIVES, emotion, social sharing, emotion differentiation, rumination, emotion regulation, open data, open materials, preregistered
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01JAABXQ9A5ABGKHN5C6KYF18W
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- Sels, Laura, et al. “The Double-Edged Sword of Social Sharing : Social Sharing Predicts Increased Emotion Differentiation When Rumination Is Low but Decreased Emotion Differentiation When Rumination Is High.” PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, vol. 35, no. 10, 2024, pp. 1079–93, doi:10.1177/09567976241266513.
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- Sels, L., Erbas, Y., O’Brien, S. T., Verhofstadt, L., Clark, M. S., & Kalokerinos, E. K. (2024). The double-edged sword of social sharing : social sharing predicts increased emotion differentiation when rumination is low but decreased emotion differentiation when rumination is high. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 35(10), 1079–1093. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241266513
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- Sels, Laura, Yasemin Erbas, Sarah T. O’Brien, Lesley Verhofstadt, Margaret S. Clark, and Elise K. Kalokerinos. 2024. “The Double-Edged Sword of Social Sharing : Social Sharing Predicts Increased Emotion Differentiation When Rumination Is Low but Decreased Emotion Differentiation When Rumination Is High.” PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 35 (10): 1079–93. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241266513.
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- Sels, Laura, Yasemin Erbas, Sarah T. O’Brien, Lesley Verhofstadt, Margaret S. Clark, and Elise K. Kalokerinos. 2024. “The Double-Edged Sword of Social Sharing : Social Sharing Predicts Increased Emotion Differentiation When Rumination Is Low but Decreased Emotion Differentiation When Rumination Is High.” PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 35 (10): 1079–1093. doi:10.1177/09567976241266513.
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- 1.Sels L, Erbas Y, O’Brien ST, Verhofstadt L, Clark MS, Kalokerinos EK. The double-edged sword of social sharing : social sharing predicts increased emotion differentiation when rumination is low but decreased emotion differentiation when rumination is high. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 2024;35(10):1079–93.
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- [1]L. Sels, Y. Erbas, S. T. O’Brien, L. Verhofstadt, M. S. Clark, and E. K. Kalokerinos, “The double-edged sword of social sharing : social sharing predicts increased emotion differentiation when rumination is low but decreased emotion differentiation when rumination is high,” PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, vol. 35, no. 10, pp. 1079–1093, 2024.
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abstract = {{Laypeople believe that sharing their emotional experiences with others will improve their understanding of those experiences, but no clear empirical evidence supports this belief. To address this gap, we used data from four daily life studies (N = 659; student and community samples) to explore the association between social sharing and subsequent emotion differentiation, which involves labeling emotions with a high degree of complexity. Contrary to our expectations, we found that social sharing of emotional experiences was linked to greater subsequent emotion differentiation on occasions when people ruminated less than usual about these experiences. In contrast, on occasions when people ruminated more than usual about their experiences, social sharing of these experiences was linked to lower emotion differentiation. These effects held when we controlled for levels of negative emotion. Our findings suggest that putting feelings into words through sharing may only enable emotional precision when that sharing occurs without dwelling or perseverating.}},
author = {{Sels, Laura and Erbas, Yasemin and O'Brien, Sarah T. and Verhofstadt, Lesley and Clark, Margaret S. and Kalokerinos, Elise K.}},
issn = {{0956-7976}},
journal = {{PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE}},
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language = {{eng}},
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title = {{The double-edged sword of social sharing : social sharing predicts increased emotion differentiation when rumination is low but decreased emotion differentiation when rumination is high}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241266513}},
volume = {{35}},
year = {{2024}},
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