La méditation par le ‘mindfulness’ favorise la stabilité émotionelle, mais les mécanismes neuroneux qui sous-tendent ces effets sont peu connus. Ce projet investiga l’effet du ‘mindfulness’ sur les réponses cérébrales et subjectives à des images négatives, positives et neutres chez des méditants expérimentés et des débutants au moyen de l’imagerie par résonance magnétique fonctionnelle (IRMf). Le ‘mindfulness’ atténua l’intensité émotionelle via différents mécanismes cérébraux pour chaque groupe. Comparés aux méditants, les débutants manifestèrent une déactivation de l’amygdale en réponse aux stimuli émotifs durant le ‘mindfulness’. Comparés aux débutants, les méditants exhibèrent une déactivation de régions du réseau du mode par défaut (RMD) pendant le ‘mindfulness’ pour tous stimuli (cortex médian préfrontal [CMP], cortex cingulaire postérieur [CCP]). Le RMD est constitué de régions fonctionnellement connectées, activées au repos et déactivées lors de tâches explicites. Cependant, nous ne connaissons pas les impacts de l’entraînement par la méditation sur la connectivité entre régions du RMD et si ces effets persistent au-delà d’un état méditatif. La connectivité fonctionnelle entre régions du RMD chez les méditants et débutants au repos fut investiguée au moyen de l’IRMf. Comparés aux débutants, les méditants montrèrent une connectivité affaiblie entre subdivisions du CMP, et une connectivité accrue entre le lobule pariétal inférieur et trois regions du RMD. Ces résultats reflètent que les bienfaits immédiats du ‘mindfulness’ sur la psychopathologie pourraient être dûs à une déactivation de régions limbiques impliquées dans la réactivité émotionelle. De plus, les bienfaits à long-terme de la méditation sur la stabilité émotionelle pourrait être dûs à une déactivation de régions corticales et cingulaires impliquées dans l’évaluation de la signification émotive et une connectivité altérée entre régions du RMD à l’état de repos. / Mindfulness meditation promotes emotional stability, yet little is known of the brain mechanisms through which this is achieved. The impact of mindfulness on the neural and subjective responses to negative, positive, and neutral pictures in experienced meditators and beginners was investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Mindfulness attenuated emotional intensity via distinct neural pathways for each group. For beginners, mindfulness induced a deactivation of the amygdala during emotional processing compared to meditators. For meditators (relative to beginners), mindfulness induced deactivations of areas involved in the evaluation of emotional significance and the default mode network (DMN) across all picture categories (medial prefrontal cortex [MPFC], posterior cingulate cortex). The DMN consists of functionally connected brain areas typically activated at rest and deactivated during goal-directed tasks. It remains unknown whether meditation training influences functional connectivity within DMN regions, and if so, whether these effects persist beyond a state of meditation per se. Functional connectivity within DMN regions at rest was examined using fMRI in beginners and meditators. Relative to beginners, meditators exhibited decreased connectivity between MPFC subdivisions, and increased connectivity between the right inferior parietal lobule and three other DMN regions. These findings may reflect that early beneficial effects of mindfulness on psychopathology are due to deactivations of limbic regions involved in emotional reactivity. On the other hand, long-term effects of meditation on emotional stability may occur through a down-regulation of prefrontal and cingulate regions involved in the evaluation of emotional significance, and altered functional connectivity within DMN regions at rest.

The diploma thesis investigates the subjective perception of time, especially the exactness of the interval length estimation, subjective passage of time, in relation to the time perspective, the level of difficulty in emotion regulation and age. Furthermore, the thesis investigates differences in retrospective and prospective paradigm in interval length estimate. Research was conducted online, with a total number of 180 respondents. Data collection had occurred during a 4 month period. Main instruments were the Czech versions of the ZTPI - Zimbardo's time perspective inventory and the DERS-SF-CZ - Difficulty in emotion regulation scale; moreover, for the declaration of subjective passage of time was employed a method of verbal estimation. Subjective interval length was registered after finishing rewriting of two short texts. The results have showed statistically significant relationships between subjective passage of time and age; between the level of difficulty in emotion regulation and subjective passage of time. Amongst the persons orientated onto positive and negative past, there was found a significant relationship between the subjective passage of time and the difficulty in emotion regulation. Results have also shown that the interval length is overestimated in both, prospective and...

« [L]e commandement appartiendra, […] l'obéissance sera due, à un ordre qui n'a point de visage, dont on peut attendre, puisqu'il est impersonnel, qu'il interpellera sans passion et sera écouté sans colère »1219. C’est à ces fins que la procédure pénale et la pratique tentent d’évincer du jugement les émotions « passives » paralysant le raisonnement autonome du juge, ou certaines émotions « actives » non fondées sur un raisonnement logique. Mais parmi les émotions pourchassées, seules celles qui peuvent être effectivement contrôlées par leur matérialisation sont susceptibles d’être évitées et d’engager la responsabilité du juge. Au-surplus, il faut compter sur l’autodiscipline du juge en le sensibilisant au moyen de règles déontologiques. Toutefois, malgré la crainte de l’arbitraire que pourraient susciter les émotions, la bonne administration de la justice ne peut se faire nonobstant toute considération émotionnelle : le juge perçoit des émotions telles que les doutes méthodiques nécessaires au jugement et doit composer avec celles des tiers. Ainsi, au sein de l’espace laissé aux émotions, le magistrat tente de réguler celles qui survivent légitimement. Finalement renvoyé à sa condition d’être social, le juge ne peut échapper aux émotions qu’il a intégrées par sa sociabilisation. Il est le représentant des émotions sociales, restant ainsi en phase avec les valeurs qu’elles révèlent. La contribution de ces émotions à la décision est légitimée par leur représentativité. La légitimité se propage enfin aux décisions et à l’action du juge. / «Commandment shall belong […] and one shall obey to a faceless order, which may be expected, given its impersonality, to rule without passion and to be listened to without anger»1220. To reach such an aim, practice and criminal procedure try to erase from judgment «passive» emotions as well as some «active» ones that are not based on any logical thinking, since they paralyse the judge's autonomous reasoning. However, among such hounded emotions, only those which can be genuinely controlled by their materialisation are likely to be avoided and to involve the judge's responsibility. Furthermore, one has to take into account the judge's self-discipline by making him aware of these issues thanks to deontological rules. Nevertheless, and despite the fear of arbitrariness that emotions might trigger, the right administration of justice cannot cast aside every emotional consideration: a judge perceives emotions such as the methodological doubts that are necessary to his judgment; he must also take into account the ones felt by others. As a result, within the space left for emotions, a magistrate tries to regulate those which legitimately survive. A judge is ultimately brought back to his status of social being, he cannot escape the emotions which he has integrated through his socialization. He represents social emotions and stays in tune with the values they reveal. The contribution of these emotions to the final decision is legitimised by their representativeness. This legitimacy finally spreads out to the judge's decisions and actions.

Emotions are a part of social work, and how the employees manage and process them can affect the quality of the services that they provide. It is therefore of importance to explore how social workers can manage and process their emotions and which support and possibilities to do so their organizations provide. This study is based on Hochschild´s theory of emotional labour, using her concept deep acting and surface acting. The aim of this study has been to examine similarities and differences in managing emotions between two different social work practices, one social services unit and one treatment unit. In order to explore this we conducted two focus group interviews, one at each unit. The study showed that both units were affected emotionally by their work and the actions of their clients. The treatment unit appears to primarily use deep acting and the social services unit appears to primarily use surface acting. The need to process their emotions is fulfilled in both places, primarily through collegial support and because they themselves creates the time to process, but the organization does not create any specific space for this.

目前對於不當督導與部屬後果之關係的心理機制研究，大部分侷限於組織正義的範疇裡，本研究根據情感事件理論，提出部屬之負面情緒在不當督導與部屬反應間的中介角色，不當督導藉由引發部屬的負面情緒，影響其工作滿意、情緒耗竭及離職意圖；本研究進一步探討個人的傳統性、認知再評估情緒調控策略在部屬不當督導知覺和負面情緒之關係的調節效果，此外，研究並假設個人壓抑式與認知再評估情緒調控，會調節部屬負面情感與工作滿意、離職意圖及情緒耗竭的關係。本研究採便利取樣，共收集218筆有直屬主管之在職員工資料，經階層迴歸分析發現，一，憤怒情緒具有中介效果：知覺不當督導關係到部屬憤怒情緒的升高，進而工作滿意低落、情緒耗竭嚴重及離職意圖增加；二，認知再評估能緩衝知覺不當督導與害怕情緒的關係；三，認知再評估高的部屬，其害怕情緒和工作滿意的相關較弱。本研究有助於管理者體認工作情緒在不當督導對部屬影響的重要性，並指出認知再評估情緒調控策略，對於減緩員工負面情緒及負面後果的助益。最後，針對研究限制、未來研究方向提出說明與建議。 / Current examinations of the psychological mechanism of abusive supervision and subordinate consequences focus mostly on organizational justice. According to Affective Event Theory, the present study proposed that subordinates’ negative emotions may mediate the relationship between abusive supervision and subordinate job satisfaction, emotion exhaustion, and intention to leave. Further, the study investigated the moderating effect of subordinates’ traditionality and two emotion regulation strategies, cognitive reappraisal and expressive inhibition, in the above relationships. Hierarchical regression analyses on data collected from a sample of 218 full-time employees in Taiwan were used to test the proposed hypotheses. Results show that anger mediated the positive relationship between abusive supervision and employee outcomes such that abusive supervision is positively correlated with subordinates’ anger, which further leads to lower job satisfaction, higher emotion exhaustion and intention to leave. Second, cognitive reappraisal moderated the relationship between abusive supervision and subordinates’ fear as well as the relationship between subordinates’ fear and job satisfaction. Those findings indicated the importance of subordinates’ emotions and the buffering effect of cognitive reappraisal in the relationship between abusive supervision and subordinate consequences. Based on the results of the study, limitations, practional implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.

大部分情緒調控研究，著重於意圖性(deliberate)調控策略的使用與效果比較(如認知再評估與壓抑)。Bargh, Lee-Chai, Barndollar, Gollwitzer, & Trötschel (2001)透過一系列實驗發現，高階的行為目標，即便在人類覺知外激發，亦能促發人們非意識地產生該目標，並有相關的追求行為。在這樣的理論與實證支持下，Mauss, Cook, & Gross (2007)驗證了情緒調控能以非意識行為進行。Williams, Bargh, Nocera, & Gray (2009)的研究更發現不管是意識或是非意識性地進行情緒調控，都能有效降低心跳改變率。由於目前仍缺乏許多非意識性情緒調控的效果與歷程證據，本研究目的即在藉由事件關聯電位，探討非意識性情緒調控的效果與時間歷程。實驗一透過事件關聯電位，驗證情緒調控能在非意識情況下發生，並發現非意識性壓抑能發生在情緒反應剛產生的300至700毫秒內。實驗二則加入了意識性重新評估與壓抑組參與者，與非意識性重新評估與壓抑組作比較。結果顯示，對參與者而言，(1) 正向情緒為一較容易調控的情緒類別。(2) 使用重新評估調控情緒的效果，仍顯著優於使用壓抑策略。(3) 非意識性情緒調控的結果，也比意識性調控情緒來得較佳。這樣的實驗結果支持了非意識情緒調控的可行性與優點。 / Studies of emotion regulations mostly focused on deliberate control strategies such as cognitive reappraisal and suppression. Bargh and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments and found higher behavioral goals could be primed non-consciously, i.e. outside human awareness (Bargh et al., 2001). Under these assumptions, Mauss, Cook and Gross (2007) verified how emotion regulations be formed through non-conscious behaviors. Williams, Bargh, Nocera, and Gray (2009) also found both conscious and non-conscious reappraisals deduced heart-rate changes. However, it is lack of studies investigating the effects and temporal dynamics of non-conscious emotion regulation. The purpose of this research is to analyze the temporal dynamics and effects of non-conscious emotion regulation processing using event-related potentials. In the first experiment, we verified emotion regulation could be operated under non-conscious way. Also we found non-conscious suppressed goals would be primed and regulated at the beginning of emotional response, i.e., in 300-700ms after the onset of emotion pictures. In the second experiment, we added conscious reappraisal and suppression condition for comparing the non-conscious and conscious regulated effects and time processes. The results showed (1) It was easy for participants to regulate positive emotion. (2) The emotion regulation effect was better with reappraisal strategy than with suppression. (3) Non-conscious emotion regulation would result in better regulated outcomes than conscious emotion regulation. These results supported the practicability and advantages of non-conscious emotion regulation.

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Cette thèse est divisée en trois parties principales, ayant toutes trait à la régulation des émotions ou à l'efficacité des interventions issues de la troisième vague des thérapies cognitives comportementales, en particulier chez les personnes ayant des symptômes psychotiques. La thèse est composée d'un chapitre de livre rédigé en francais, de quatre articles rédigés en anglais (introduction, deux méta-analyses et une étude pilote) et d’une discussion générale rédigée en anglais. L'introduction, déjà publiée sous le format d’un chapitre de livre (et d’un article) constitue un examen exhaustif de la littérature portant sur la régulation des émotions dans la schizophrénie et dans les autres troubles psychotiques. Les individus présentant une schizophrénie présentent des dérégulations, indépendantes l’une de l’autre, dans les trois domaines distincts suivants: l’expression des émotions, le traitement des emotions, et l’expérience émotionnelle. Cette première partie de la thèse recommande fortement l'intégration des stratégies de régulation des émotions, notamment celles de la troisième vague des thérapies cognitives comportementales telles que la pleine conscience, l'acceptation et la compassion, dans le traitement des personnes souffrant de psychose. Dans la deuxième partie de la thèse, deux méta-analyses examinant l'efficacité des stratégies de la troisième vague des traitements cognitifs comportementaux dans la régulation des émotions sont présentées. La première méta-analyse vise à examiner l'efficacité de la thérapie basée sur la pleine conscience pour tous les troubles psychologiques ainsi que pour les conditions médicales. La deuxième méta-analyse porte plus spécifiquement sur l'efficacité des stratégies de la troisième vague pour la psychose. Les résultats des deux méta-analyses démontrent des tailles d'effet entre modérées et larges, avec un effet plus marqué sur les symptômes affectifs, notamment l'anxiété, la dépression et la détresse. En outre, les stratégies étudiées (la pleine conscience, l'acceptation et la compassion) sont des fortes modératrices positives de l'efficacité des traitements. Ces résultats suggèrent que ces stratégies sont efficaces dans la régulation des émotions, du moins lorsqu'elles sont mesurées au sein de grands bassins de participants, y compris les personnes souffrant de psychose. La troisième partie de la thèse implique le développement et la validation préliminaire d'une nouvelle intervention de groupe pour des individus en début de psychose à l'aide d'une combinaison de stratégies d'acceptation, de compassion et de la pleine conscience. Douze individus ont participé à cette étude pilote. Les résultats démontrent la faisabilité et l'acceptabilité du traitement. Des améliorations significatives dans la régulation des émotions et dans les symptômes affectifs sont observées, et sont potentiellement liées à l'intervention. Globalement, la thèse offre un soutien empirique du rôle de la régulation émotionnelle dans le traitement des personnes atteintes de troubles psychotiques. Plus de recherches sont nécessaires pour valider l'efficacité du nouveau traitement. / This thesis is divided into three main parts, all pertaining to emotional regulation or to the efficacy of third wave cognitive behavioral treatments particularly in individuals having experienced psychotic symptoms. The thesis consists of one book chapter published in French, four articles published in English (i.e., introduction, deux meta-analyses and a clinical pilot study), and a general discussion. The introduction already published as an article (and as book chapter) involves a comprehensive review of the literature on emotion regulation in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Individuals with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders tend to show emotional dysregulations at the experiential, expressive, and processing levels. This first part strongly recommends integrating emotion regulation strategies, namely third wave cognitive behavioral strategies such as mindfulness, acceptance and compassion in the treatment of individuals with psychosis. In the second part of the thesis, two meta-analyses reviewing the effectiveness of these third wave cognitive behavioral strategies in regulating emotions are presented. The first investigates the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy across all psychological disorders and medical conditions. The second meta-analysis focuses more specifically on the effectiveness of mindfulness interventions for psychosis. The results from both meta-analyses show moderate to large effect sizes, with higher ones for affective symptoms, especially anxiety, depression and distress. Furthermore, the investigated strategies (i.e., mindfulness, acceptance and compassion) are strong positive moderators of the treatments’ effectiveness. These results suggest that these strategies are effective in regulating emotions, at least when measured in large pools of participants, including individuals with psychosis. The third part of the thesis involves the development and preliminary validation of a new group intervention for early psychosis using a combination of acceptance, compassion and mindfulness. Twelve individuals participated in this pilot study. Results indicated the feasibility and acceptability of the treatment, with improvements in emotion regulation and affective symptoms observed, and potentially linked to the intervention. The thesis overall empirically supports the important role of emotional regulation in treating individuals with psychosis. More research is warranted pertaining to the effectiveness of the new developed treatment.

La méditation par le ‘mindfulness’ favorise la stabilité émotionelle, mais les mécanismes neuroneux qui sous-tendent ces effets sont peu connus. Ce projet investiga l’effet du ‘mindfulness’ sur les réponses cérébrales et subjectives à des images négatives, positives et neutres chez des méditants expérimentés et des débutants au moyen de l’imagerie par résonance magnétique fonctionnelle (IRMf). Le ‘mindfulness’ atténua l’intensité émotionelle via différents mécanismes cérébraux pour chaque groupe. Comparés aux méditants, les débutants manifestèrent une déactivation de l’amygdale en réponse aux stimuli émotifs durant le ‘mindfulness’. Comparés aux débutants, les méditants exhibèrent une déactivation de régions du réseau du mode par défaut (RMD) pendant le ‘mindfulness’ pour tous stimuli (cortex médian préfrontal [CMP], cortex cingulaire postérieur [CCP]). Le RMD est constitué de régions fonctionnellement connectées, activées au repos et déactivées lors de tâches explicites. Cependant, nous ne connaissons pas les impacts de l’entraînement par la méditation sur la connectivité entre régions du RMD et si ces effets persistent au-delà d’un état méditatif. La connectivité fonctionnelle entre régions du RMD chez les méditants et débutants au repos fut investiguée au moyen de l’IRMf. Comparés aux débutants, les méditants montrèrent une connectivité affaiblie entre subdivisions du CMP, et une connectivité accrue entre le lobule pariétal inférieur et trois regions du RMD. Ces résultats reflètent que les bienfaits immédiats du ‘mindfulness’ sur la psychopathologie pourraient être dûs à une déactivation de régions limbiques impliquées dans la réactivité émotionelle. De plus, les bienfaits à long-terme de la méditation sur la stabilité émotionelle pourrait être dûs à une déactivation de régions corticales et cingulaires impliquées dans l’évaluation de la signification émotive et une connectivité altérée entre régions du RMD à l’état de repos. / Mindfulness meditation promotes emotional stability, yet little is known of the brain mechanisms through which this is achieved. The impact of mindfulness on the neural and subjective responses to negative, positive, and neutral pictures in experienced meditators and beginners was investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Mindfulness attenuated emotional intensity via distinct neural pathways for each group. For beginners, mindfulness induced a deactivation of the amygdala during emotional processing compared to meditators. For meditators (relative to beginners), mindfulness induced deactivations of areas involved in the evaluation of emotional significance and the default mode network (DMN) across all picture categories (medial prefrontal cortex [MPFC], posterior cingulate cortex). The DMN consists of functionally connected brain areas typically activated at rest and deactivated during goal-directed tasks. It remains unknown whether meditation training influences functional connectivity within DMN regions, and if so, whether these effects persist beyond a state of meditation per se. Functional connectivity within DMN regions at rest was examined using fMRI in beginners and meditators. Relative to beginners, meditators exhibited decreased connectivity between MPFC subdivisions, and increased connectivity between the right inferior parietal lobule and three other DMN regions. These findings may reflect that early beneficial effects of mindfulness on psychopathology are due to deactivations of limbic regions involved in emotional reactivity. On the other hand, long-term effects of meditation on emotional stability may occur through a down-regulation of prefrontal and cingulate regions involved in the evaluation of emotional significance, and altered functional connectivity within DMN regions at rest.

I learned to authentically connect by observing the pedagogues who mentored me. My lived experience with them inspired me to base my pedagogical approach on the constructs of community and engagement that youth dismantled by displaying increasing disengagement, which transferred into disaffected relationships. This reflexive/narrative autoethnography investigates the problematic phenomenon affecting youth: the loss of authentic connectivity. I critically examine my professional journey with pre-digital, digital, and post-digital university students by analysing our common, cultural context, thereby interpreting my behaviour, thoughts, and experiences in relation to them. Hermeneutic phenomenology’s framework deepens the inquiry, as it involves a broader cultural, political, and social understanding to uncover deeper meaning in changing behaviours by reflecting on what is the lived experience of authentic connectivity for youth. My comprehensive research evidences that youth’s technological addiction has influenced rapid brain evolution, and exploded their visual and multimodal skills. Neuroscience has broadly concluded that the new forms of learning technology offers are changing the way the brain processes information. I suggest that youth are experiencing a biological conflict, the brain’s rapid evolution overwhelming more slowly evolving physical responses, effectively interfering with the flow of affective information that requires hemispheric transfer. Neither moving beyond the premise of intelligence as being predominantly brain-based, nor acknowledging the cooperative role our bodily intelligence plays, as the latter is embedded in our lived experience, the greater understanding of the whole of learning, and its ally, authentic connectivity, cannot be achieved. I submit that moving beyond the absoluteness of a purely scientific approach to the brain, and integrating both human and cognitive sciences are key in moving toward a more holistic, autonomous learning pedagogy, so to layer our understanding of the ‘person process’, that which includes whole thinking and whole being. To counter the affective devolution, which is detrimental not only to learning, but to being a well-adjusted person, this paper proposes a foundational shift in teacher training curriculum design by suggesting tools that foster an observational pedagogy, which seeks to teach those navigational skills that support higher-level analytical processes that can counteract the excessive reactions that impede learning, and teaching.