A Precision Medicine Approach to Target Engagement for Emotion Regulation

The proposed study is designed to first test whether teaching people personalized or standardized emotion regulation skills leads to greater decreases in daily negative emotion intensity. Second, using data from an initial sample, the investigators will prospectively assign an independent sample of participants to receive their predicted optimal or non-optimal skills to determine if it is feasible and efficacious to match participants to the most appropriate training condition. Results of these studies may identify the mechanisms by which emotion regulation interventions impact emotional functioning and allow for the development of personalized, evidence-based, and scalable emotion regulation interventions.

Inclusion Criteria:Elevated emotion dysregulationExclusion Criteria:Lack of proficiency in EnglishNo access to smartphoneConditions requiring greater than outpatient care