Social Facilitation of Emotion Regulation in Adolescence

NCT06458920 | Recruiting

• 2 other identifiers: 21-000929R21HD108751
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 100
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this project is to test whether regulating emotions with help from a friend is more effective and long-lasting in adolescents than regulating alone, and to characterize age-related differences in the neural mechanisms supporting social versus cognitive emotion regulation. Participants will complete a psychology experiment while undergoing fMRI scanning.

Conditions

Emotion Regulation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Negative affect

  Participant's self-reported negative affect on 1-4 scale (1=not bad at all, 4=very bad) during experiment

  1 day

Study Arms (2)

Social regulation

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will regulate emotion with the help of a friend

Behavioral: Social regulation

Cognitive regulation

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will regulate emotion on their own

Behavioral: Cognitive regulation

Interventions

Social regulation BEHAVIORAL

Participants will regulate emotion with the help of a friend

Social regulation

Cognitive regulation BEHAVIORAL

Participants will regulate emotion on their own

Cognitive regulation

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 13 Years - 25 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Adolescent participants must be 13-15 year of age
• Adult participants must be 20-25 years of age
• Proficient in English

You may not qualify if:

• Auditory, visual or cognitive impairment
• Any health conditions that are contraindicated for MRI

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of California, Los Angeles: lead
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Emotional Regulation

Interventions

Social Control, Formal

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Self-Control; Social Behavior; Behavior

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Professor

Model Details: During one MRI scan, participants will spend part of the time regulating emotion on their own and part of the time regulating emotion with the help of a friend

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 7, 2024
• First Posted: June 14, 2024
• Study Start: October 5, 2022
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): June 1, 2026
• Last Updated: June 24, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ANALYTIC CODE
• Time Frame: 12 months from study completion
• Access Criteria: Deidentified data will be posted on Open Science Framework

Locations

US (1)