The course will focus on the relationship between emotions, social determinants, and health. It is well known and generally accepted that emotions and health are closely interconnected, although the mechanisms of their mutual influence have not yet been precisely described. In health psychology, affective processes are considered healthy individual responses to situations and events that may pose a threat or a benefit to one's health. What can be assessed and evaluated on the continuum of healthy ? unhealthy, however, are primarily the ways of managing and working with these phenomena, especially emotions. Emotion regulation is a highly complex process that involves influencing the intensity (e.g., decreasing, increasing, maintaining, or changing) and valence (positivity or negativity) of emotional experience, including the initiation, selection, or elimination of emotional experience and expressive-behavioral response or activity (Gross, 1998). The course will address emotions, emotional experience and its regulation, the phenomenology of emotions, and myths related to emotions. Emotion regulation is closely linked to the way emotions are constructed in our sociocultural environment. Generally, a low ability to regulate emotions?whether in terms of inappropriate suppression or expression?is considered an indicator of psychopathological behavior, and difficulties in emotion management are associated with less optimal mental and physical health. Emotional dysregulation indicates maladaptive emotion management, for example, in connection with aggression, behavioral disorders, or substance abuse. The course will present selected links between emotion management and health, as well as the application potential of scientific knowledge in the social sciences.
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Required reading: Vingerhoets, A., Nyklicek, I. & Denollet, J. (2008). Emotion Regulation - Conceptual and Clinical Issues. NewYork: Springer. Reccomended reading: Consedine, N. S. (2008). The health-promoting and health-damaging effects of emotions: the view from developmental functionalism. In. M. Lewis, J. Haviland-Jones & L. Feldman-Barrett (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (3rd Ed.), s. 676-690. Guilford, New York. Diamond, L., M. & Aspinwall, L. G. (2003): Emotion Regulation Across the Life Span: An Integrative Perspective Emphasizing Self-Regulation, Positive Affect, and Dyadic Processes, Motivation and Emotion, 27(2), 125-156 Diener, E. (2000). Subjective well-being: The science of happiness and a proposal for a national index. American Psychology, 55(1), 34-43. Fredrickson, B. L., Losada, M. (2005). Positive affect and the complex dynamics of human flourishing. American Psychologist, 60(7), 678-686. Šolcová, I. & Kebza, V. (2006). Typy chování, typy osobnosti a jejich vztah ke zdraví. Československá psychologie, 50, 419-430. Vedhara, K., Miles, J. N. V. & Wetherell, M. A. (2010). Coping style and depression influence the healing of diabetic foot ulcers: observational and mechanistic evidence. Diabetologia, 53(8), 1590-1598.
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