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

Korpela, Kalevi M.Univ Tampere, Fac Social Sci, Psychol, Tampere, Finland (author)

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 (N = 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.

Pasanen, TyttiUniv Tampere, Fac Social Sci, Psychol, Tampere, Finland (author)
Repo, VeeraUniv Tampere, Fac Social Sci, Psychol, Tampere, Finland (author)
Hartig, Terry,1959-Uppsala universitet,Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF)(Swepub:uu)terrhart (author)
Staats, HenkLeiden Univ, Inst Psychol, Leiden, Netherlands (author)
Mason, MichaelUniv Tennessee, Coll Social Work, Ctr Behav Hlth Res, Knoxville, TN USA (author)
Alves, SusanaCankaya Univ, Dept Architecture, Ankara, Turkey (author)
Fornara, FerdinandoUniv Cagliari, Dept Psychol, Cagliari, Italy (author)
Marks, TonyUniv New England, Sch Behav Cognit & Social Sci, Armidale, NSW, Australia (author)
Saini, SunilIndian Assoc Hlth Res & Welf, Hisar, Haryana, India (author)
Scopelliti, MassimilianoLibera Univ Maria Ss Assunta, Dept Human Studies, Rome, Italy (author)
Soares, Ana L.Univ Tecn Lisboa, Inst Super Agron, Lisbon, Portugal (author)
Stigsdotter, Ulrika K.Univ Copenhagen, Dept Geosci & Nat Resource Management, Copenhagen, Denmark (author)
Thompson, Catharine WardUniv Edinburgh, OPENspace Res Ctr, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (author)
Univ Tampere, Fac Social Sci, Psychol, Tampere, FinlandInstitutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF) (creator_code:org_t)

By the author/editor: Korpela, Kalevi ...; Pasanen, Tytti; Repo, Veera; Hartig, Terry, 1 ...; Staats, Henk; Mason, Michael; show more...; Alves, Susana; Fornara, Ferdina ...; Marks, Tony; Saini, Sunil; Scopelliti, Mass ...; Soares, Ana L.; Stigsdotter, Ulr ...; Thompson, Cathar ...; show less...

About the subject

Kungliga biblioteket hanterar dina personuppgifter i enlighet med EU:s dataskyddsförordning (2018), GDPR. Läs mer om hur det funkar här.
Så här hanterar KB dina uppgifter vid användning av denna tjänst.