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Relations among psychotherapists’ epistemic orientation, personal style and emotion regulation

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Title: Relations among psychotherapists’ epistemic orientation, personal style and emotion regulation
Authors: Palma,Emanuel Missias Silva, Gondim,Sônia Maria Guedes
Source: Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa v.35 2019
Publisher Information: Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade de Brasília
Publication Year: 2019
Collection: SciELO Brazil (Scientific Electronic Library Online)
Subject Terms: epistemic orientation, personal style, emotion regulation, psychotherapist
Description: The main objective of this study was to examine the relations among psychotherapists’ epistemic orientation (i.e., intuitive, empiricist, and rationalist), personal style and emotion regulation strategies. Participants in the study were 674 psychotherapists of different theoretical approaches, who completed an online questionnaire containing measures of epistemic orientation, personal style, and emotion regulation strategies. Psychotherapists profiled as predominantly intuitive tended towards broader attention and greater emotional closeness as compared to those profiled as predominantly rationalist or empiricist. Furthermore, they also reported using more strategies for increasing the effects of positive emotions than rationalists. Implications for training, practice and therapist well-being are discussed.
Document Type: article in journal/newspaper
File Description: text/html
Language: English
Availability: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-37722019000100526
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Accession Number: edsbas.4A196A7E
Database: BASE
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Abstract:The main objective of this study was to examine the relations among psychotherapists’ epistemic orientation (i.e., intuitive, empiricist, and rationalist), personal style and emotion regulation strategies. Participants in the study were 674 psychotherapists of different theoretical approaches, who completed an online questionnaire containing measures of epistemic orientation, personal style, and emotion regulation strategies. Psychotherapists profiled as predominantly intuitive tended towards broader attention and greater emotional closeness as compared to those profiled as predominantly rationalist or empiricist. Furthermore, they also reported using more strategies for increasing the effects of positive emotions than rationalists. Implications for training, practice and therapist well-being are discussed.