Journal of Sleep Disorders: Treatment and CareISSN: 2325-9639

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Vandekerckhove M Author

Marie.Vandekerckhove@vub.ac.be

Subjects of specialization
Psychology, Sleep Disorders, Mental health

Affiliation
Department of Clinical and Life Span Psychology, Experimental and Applied Psychology, Belgium

Biography

Marie Vandekerckhove, MD, MPsy, PhD, received a degree in psychology from the Université of Ghent with greatest distinction in 1995, a PhD in the natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Publications

Research Article Open Access

Dispositional Experiential Emotion Regulation and the effects of PreSleep Negative Mood on Sleep

Author(s):

Vandekerckhove M, Houthuys J, Kestemont J, Weiss R, Verhaert V, De Valck E, Verbraecken J and Cluydts R

The present study investigates the impact of pre-sleep negative stress on sleep and unrecognized effects of dispositional emotion regulation. It was examined whether the induction of negative pre-sleep emotion had a negative impact on sleep physiology and second, whether a dispositional High ‘Emotional Approach’ (HEA) compared to a ‘Low Emotional Approach’ (LEA) defined by high versus low efforts to identify, process, and express emotions, assessed by the ‘Emotional Approach’ scale EAC, Stanton et al., facilitates the recovery from a pre-sleep failure-experience and its effects on sleep physiology. The induction of a personal failure experience resulted in a worsening of mood, a significant increase of ruminative thoughts ... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2325-9639.1000201

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