Strategy interrelations: expression and suppression are negatively related, while social support seeking and expression are positively related across emotions¶

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q2 i? Latent correlations among RAEQ strategies showed expression and suppression consistently negatively related, and social support seeking and expression positively related for all three emotions. → Stockinger 2025

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Stockinger 2025¶

Stockinger, K., Dresel, M., Marsh, H. W., & Pekrun, R. (2025). Strategies for regulating achievement emotions: Conceptualization and relations with university students' emotions, well-being, and health. Learning and Instruction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102089

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Correlational analysis of interrelations among the six strategies in Study 1 (350 German university students). The article attributes the positive expression–support link to "the social-communicative consequences expression may share withseeking supportfrom others", and reports expression and suppression were consistently negatively related.

"social support seekingand expressionwerepositivelyrelatedforallthree emotions, which is likely attributable to the social-communicative consequences expression may share withseeking supportfrom others."

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