Social Facilitation of Emotion Regulation in Adolescence

ConditionEmotion Regulation

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age13-25

SponsorUniversity of California, Los Angeles

About this trial

The goal of this project is to test whether regulating emotions with help from a friend is more effective and long-lasting in adolescents than regulating alone, and to characterize age-related differences in the neural mechanisms supporting social versus cognitive emotion regulation. Participants will complete a psychology experiment while undergoing fMRI scanning.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Adolescent participants must be 13-15 year of age

Adult participants must be 20-25 years of age

Proficient in English

Disqualifiers

Auditory, visual or cognitive impairment

Any health conditions that are contraindicated for MRI

Trial design

Design model

Crossover

Treatments tested in this trial

Social regulation
Behavioral
Participants will regulate emotion with the help of a friend
Cognitive regulation
Behavioral
Participants will regulate emotion on their own

Treatment groups

100 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Group A: Social regulationExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Group B: Cognitive regulationExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

Negative affect

Participant's self-reported negative affect on 1-4 scale (1=not bad at all, 4=very bad) during experiment

Time frame

1 day

Sponsors and contacts

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University of California, Los Angeles

Lead sponsor

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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