Research Of Emotion Regulation Based On The Psychology Of Emotion-design Exploration Of "Emotion Regulation" Application

With accelerating pace of life and the increasing pressure, peopleliving in big cities more or less have ‘emotion disorder’. The huge livingpressure makes people have more emotional fluctuation, bringing somenegative impacts in work and life. Moreover, negative emotions causedmore behavior questions deviated from society. However, people livingin big cities don’t have much time to pay attention to their mood. Weshould think about that how to adjust mood with little time. As one of theinformation products, the portability and timeliness of mobile phonemake communication more freely. It becomes a very good researchsupport.This project will combine theory and practical research together,analyze the characteristics of adult city-dwellers, focus on adjusting adultcity-dwellers negative emotions, and design mobile apps with the theoriesof the psychology of emotions. The research part on users first usesquestionnaires, observation and interviews to understand the status ofadult city-dwellers’ emotional regulation. A deeper research will carry onbased on the new phenomenon from the interviews. The project will finda breakthrough among the types of emotional regulation, combining thetheories of the psychology of emotion to analyze and study. In themeanwhile, it will categorize the behavioral data based on the differentmotives and needs of users, and summarize the different emotionalregulation needs for adult city-dwellers. With the instruction of the theoryof the psychology of emotion, the project will propose a proper programwith innovation on emotional regulation for adult city-dwellers based on under-luminal affective priming effect, emotion-cognition and otherresearches. In the end the project will design an app for emotionregulation using smart phone as interactive platform, in order to soothethe emotion issues of adult city-dwellers.