Thanks to my wonderful supervisors/co-authors for helping get this thesis introduction into a review! @sacairney.bsky.social, Cade McCall and Lisa Henderson!

The share link is free to access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljc%7E6TB... (happy to share privately after that too!)

Thanks Nina for your wonderful editing too!! :)

Massive thanks to my co-authors for their contribution to this work! Cade McCall, Annette Brose, Lisa Henderson & @sacairney.bsky.social.

Overall, these findings suggest that sleep quality and adaptive emotion regulation hold independent roles in reducing emotional inertia. Both are key to emotional wellbeing, but don't rely on each other.

Interestingly, the association between greater adaptive ER strategy use and lower NA inertia was observed regardless of participants' sleep quality.

We found that better sleep quality was linked to lower NA inertia. In other words, good sleep helps reduce the persistence of negative affect over time.

In this online study (N = 245), we used a validated film clip task to index NA inertia. Sleep quality and use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies were measured using questionnaires.

We know that good sleep and using adaptive emotion regulation strategies can help reduce negative affect persistence (NA inertia). But do they work in concert to reduce NA inertia?

Emotional inertia- when negative feelings persist over time- has been linked to poorer wellbeing. But we know little about the mechanisms underlying this link.

Congrats Ashley!