Emotion Regulation and Emotion Perception

Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Emotions

In brief

The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of a brief, emotion regulation intervention on the ability to perceive other people's emotions.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03790878

Run by

Duke University

People needed

91

Starts

2019-02-04

Expected to finish

2019-12-02

Last updated by the study team

2021-02-24

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 55. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• ages 18-55;
• have a smartphone and agree to receive text-messages;
• have difficulty with their relationships or social interactions;
• high emotion dysregulation, assessed with the Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)(Gratz \& Roemer, 2004) with scores over 90.

You may not qualify if…

• Current mania;
• Meets full criteria for any current psychotic disorder;
• Currently/chronically homeless;
• Current suicidal ideation;
• Psychiatric hospitalization within past 6 months;
• Unable to read, blind or deaf. Our previous study recruited only participants who were currently in treatment, but this study will include both participants who are currently in treatment, as well as those who are not in treatment.
• high self-reported autistic traits, as assessed by the Autism Spectrum Quotient (Auyeung \& Baron-Cohen, 2012).

Where it is running

• Duke University Medical Center — Durham, North Carolina, United States

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