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Research has linked childhood adversities to individuals' subsequent experiences of chronic stress, their cognitive flexibility, and negative health outcomes, including psychopathology. To better understand these connections, investigators examined how two contrasting emotion-regulating coping strategies, expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal, affect subsequent perceptions of chronic stress and cognitive flexibility (a higher executive function described as “the tendency to perceive difficult situations as controllable”).
Expressive suppression, a possibly maladaptive strategy of hiding or inhibiting emotional expressions, might result in enhanced physiological responses associated with the emotion. In contrast, individuals using …