Emotional Regulation Based on Focusing Processes in Everyday Life as a Predictor of Life Satisfaction: Using the Awareness of the Feeling Process Scale, Version 2

Abstract

This study investigates whether awareness of the feeling process (AFP), which is an emotional regulation strategy based on focusing process, is adaptive and predicts life satisfaction. University students (N=332) completed questionnaires of AFP, reappraisal, suppression, emotional regulation as measured on the Intercultural Adjustment Potential Scale (ICAPS), and life satisfaction. A hierarchical regression analysis indicated that AFP predicts life satisfaction above and beyond what is accounted for by other adaptive emotional regulation measures.