eHealth 360°. International Summit on eHealth, Budapest, Hungary, June 14-16, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

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Positive Technologies for Promoting Emotion Regulation Abilities in Adolescents

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_23,
        author={Esther Schek and Fabrizia Mantovani and Olivia Realdon and Joao Dias and Ana Paiva and Sarit Schramm-Yavin and Ruth Pat-Horenczyk},
        title={Positive Technologies for Promoting Emotion Regulation Abilities in Adolescents},
        proceedings={eHealth 360°. International Summit on eHealth, Budapest, Hungary, June 14-16, 2016, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={EHEALTH360},
        year={2017},
        month={1},
        keywords={Positive technology Emotion regulation Adolescents},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_23}
    }
    
  • Esther Schek
    Fabrizia Mantovani
    Olivia Realdon
    Joao Dias
    Ana Paiva
    Sarit Schramm-Yavin
    Ruth Pat-Horenczyk
    Year: 2017
    Positive Technologies for Promoting Emotion Regulation Abilities in Adolescents
    EHEALTH360
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_23
Esther Schek1,*, Fabrizia Mantovani1, Olivia Realdon1, Joao Dias2, Ana Paiva2, Sarit Schramm-Yavin3, Ruth Pat-Horenczyk
  • 1: University of Milano-Bicocca
  • 2: Universidade de Lisboa
  • 3: Herzog Hospital
*Contact email: e.schek@campus.unimib.it

Abstract

In recent years there is a growing interest in the use of emerging advanced technologies in supporting well-being and health promotion. Although few existing programs employ innovative technologies to foster social and emotional learning in adolescence, they do not specifically focus on emotion regulation skills. Further, research in this domain has primarily tested the efficacy of these trainings with one type of measurement technique at a time, although most recent theories highlight that emotions are multi-dimensional and multi-component processes. With the above in mind and to overcome these limitations, we developed a technology-enhanced protocol for the enhancement of emotion regulation, based on evidenced based program, the Building Emotion and Affect Regulation, age-adjusted and combined with virtual characters and wearable physiological sensors. The objective of this paper is to present an overview of the design and development process of this innovative protocol: EmoRegulators.