Effect of cognitive reappraisal ability on presleep emotion regulation and sleep onset

Introduction: Cognitive reappraisal is generally considered to be an effective emotion-regulation strategy. However, previous studies on the association between cognitive reappraisal and sleep showed inconsistent results. One possible reason for the inconsistent findings is that previous studies used self-reported measure to assess the frequency to use reappraisal, which has been shown not to correlate with the effectiveness of reappraisal. The present study examined the hypothesis that the impact of presleep reappraisal on sleep onset process depends on individual´s cognitive reappraisal ability (CRA).

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