{"id":205553,"date":"2017-10-20T04:09:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T04:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/ccny-psychologists-develop-new-model-that-links-emotions-and-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T04:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T04:09:48","slug":"ccny-psychologists-develop-new-model-that-links-emotions-and-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/ccny-psychologists-develop-new-model-that-links-emotions-and-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"CCNY psychologists develop new model that links emotions and mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades psychologists have studied how people regulate emotions using a multitude of ways to conceptualize and assess emotion regulation. Now a recent study published this week in the journal <em>PLOS ONE<\/em> by Elliot Jurist and David M. Greenberg of The City College of New York, shows how a new assessment model can give clinicians an exciting new way to think about clinical diagnoses including anxiety, mood, and developmental disorders.    <\/p>\n<p>The authors developed the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS) &#8211; a novel assessment model which breaks emotion regulation into three elements:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Identifying: the ability to identify emotions and to reflect on the factors that influence them (e.g. childhood events)\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li>Processing: the ability to modulate and distinguish complex emotions\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li>Expressing: the tendency to express emotions outwardly or inwardly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jurist and Greenberg administered the MAS to nearly 3,000 adults online. Statistical modeling of the results showed: processing emotions delineates from identifying them and expressing emotions delineates from processing them.<\/p>\n<p>The team of psychologists also found that emotion regulation was linked to personality and wellbeing in surprising and unexpected ways and that the ability to process and modulate emotions was a positive predictor of wellbeing beyond personality and demographic information. As the accompanying chart shows, one of the most important findings was how the three elements linked to the participants&#8217; prior clinical diagnoses across anxiety, mood, eating, and neurodevelopmental disorders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have introduced a way for psychologists and psychiatrists to use emotion regulation to supplement diagnoses,&#8221; said Greenberg, the lead author who is a postdoc student at Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Jurist, the senior author and director of the Mentalized Affectivity Lab at CCNY and Professor at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership said: &#8220;For the first time we have empirical evidence for the validity and usefulness of the theory that can be carried out into the mainstream by neuroscientists, emotion researchers and psychiatrists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades psychologists have studied how people regulate emotions using a multitude of ways to conceptualize and assess emotion regulation. Now a recent study published this week in the journal PLOS ONE by Elliot Jurist and David M. Greenberg of The City College of New York, shows how a new assessment model can give clinicians <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/ccny-psychologists-develop-new-model-that-links-emotions-and-mental-health\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}