The Impact of Emotional Working Memory on Emotional Regulation and Relevant Interventions

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10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_67How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Emotional Working Memory; Emotion Regulation; Working Memory Training; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Abstract

Working memory is a cognitive system that temporarily stores a limited information capacity due to competition of cognitive activity for use during ongoing processing. Working memory is domain-general and linked to various cognitive activities. Working memory training has been developed to help people boost their working memory capacity. Emotion regulation is a cognitive process that entails an individual’s deliberate efforts to manage their emotional states from the impulsive flow of emotional responses. As research regarding the relationship between working memory and emotion regulation is scarce, this review investigated and demonstrated that there is a relationship between working memory capacity and emotion regulation. Working memory capacity’s relationship with emotion regulation was also explored in clinical populations. Subsequently, this review also explored whether working memory training affected emotion regulation and clinical symptoms in typically developing and clinical populations. These findings have limitations as the emotion regulation measurements used in previous studies were mainly subjective and did not objectively reflect emotional regulation in real life. Plus, previous studies did not evaluate working memory training’s long-term effectiveness. This paper showed the relationship between working memory and emotion regulation. Subsequently, this paper also evaluated the effectiveness of working memory training. This paper can provide guidance for future intervention studies and practices that target working memory and emotional regulation.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Justin Yang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/11/19
TI  - The Impact of Emotional Working Memory on Emotional Regulation and Relevant Interventions
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Science Education and Art Appreciation (SEAA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 543
EP  - 551
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_67
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_67
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