Social Facilitation of Emotion Regulation in Adolescence

Emotion Regulation Clinical Trial

Official title:

Social Facilitation of Emotion Regulation in Adolescence

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06458920
• Other study ID #: 21-000929
• Secondary ID: R21HD108751
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 5, 2022
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: June 2024
• Source: University of California, Los Angeles
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Description:

Participants will complete a novel paradigm during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine whether adolescents (N = 50) and adults (N = 50) are more effective at down-regulating negative affect when a friend provides them with reinterpretations of negative stimuli (i.e. social reappraisal), as compared to when they reinterpret stimuli alone (i.e., cognitive reappraisal). Specifically, participants will look at pictures of upsetting events while undergoing fMRI scanning. For some pictures, they will be instructed to just look at the image. For other pictures, they will be told to listen to their friend's voice as their friend helps them to regulate their emotions. For other pictures, they will be told to regulate their emotions on their own. The primary comparison of interest is how participants regulate emotion on their own versus when their friend helps them.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 13 Years to 25 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adolescent participants must be 13-15 year of age
• Adult participants must be 20-25 years of age
• Proficient in English

Exclusion Criteria:

• Auditory, visual or cognitive impairment
• Any health conditions that are contraindicated for MRI

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Emotion Regulation

Intervention

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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles	California

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, Los Angeles	Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Negative affect	Participant's self-reported negative affect on 1-4 scale (1=not bad at all, 4=very bad) during experiment	1 day