**Replication at IIT CREP project #21-19**
The emotion study by Troy et al. (2017) will be replicated by students at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago Illinois. The replication will be led by Dr. Nicole Legate and graduate student Alex Bullock as part of the Research Methods psychology class. This study will be conducted online. It is anticipated that the sample of study participants will be largely IIT students, so the sample may be less diverse than in the original study.
Student Researchers will be divided into two groups for internal class project purposes, but there will be one dataset collected.
Group 1 ("Tiger Team") Ana Shack, Evan Duda, Jack Hamilton, Michael Galvan, Sarah Parro, Yunuen Rodriguez
Group 2 ("Trojan Horse") Allan Bastea, Aseem Dani, Deriniece Moton, Nadia Stoyanova, Phallyn Habercoss, Rebecca Oziemkowski,
**Project Supervision**
Dr. Nicole Legate and Alex Bullock
**Recruitment Information**
Approximately 300 participants are expected to be recruited through the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and outside participation. Participants are to be recruited by the following methods:
All participants of age 18 or older with access to listings on SONA, Facebook, Instagram, and school bulletin boards/forums.
- Email campaign including IIT greek life focus (and family/acquaintances)
- Facebook & Instagram Post
- Publication in IIT newsletter & IIT student newspaper
- Posters on IIT campus
- SONA
**Abstract**
Emotion regulation is central to psychological health, and several emotion-regulation strategies have been identified as beneficial. However, new theorizing suggests the benefits of emotion regulation should depend on its context. One important contextual moderator might be socioeconomic status (SES), because SES powerfully shapes people’s ecology: lower SES affords less control over one’s environment and thus, the ability to self-regulate should be particularly important. Accordingly, effectively regulating one’s emotions (e.g., using cognitive reappraisal) could be more beneficial in lower (vs. higher) SES contexts. Three studies (N=429) tested whether SES moderates the link between cognitive reappraisal ability (CRA; measured with surveys and in the laboratory) and depression. Each study and a meta-analysis of the three studies revealed that CRA was associated with less depression for lower-SES but not higher-SES individuals. Thus, CRA may be uniquely beneficial in lower-SES contexts. More broadly, the effects of emotion regulation depend upon the ecology within which it is used.
**Notes from the author**
The authors sent the specific questions used for the CRA and the CES-D. Furthermore, they noted the following:
"One thought to consider is that the measure of SES - income - might not necessarily translate. According to the conceptual model, the effect was due to the extent to which income is associated with controllability of stressors. And so it’s important to pay attention to the range of incomes, and in particular avoid restricted range (especially at the lower range)."
[Note from CREP Team: Please include the original question as is in your replication. You may add an additional question that is more adjusted to your sample at the very end of your survey. In this case, please emphasize in your wiki that your replication is a direct+ replication.]
**Notes from the CREP Team**
The CRA and CES-D are now added to the materials. Please be aware that the previous version of the materials contained wrong CES-D questions.
This page contains all the collected study materials and instructions from authors that we have compiled. We also include any comments from other contributors or follow up instructions that we have learned since the beginning of the project. Click "read more" below or choose the "Wiki" option above for further information. Contact Lea Hildebrandt ([leakhildebrandt@gmail.com][1]) or Jordan Wagge ([crep.psych@gmail.com][2]) with questions or problems.
**Deviations From Original Study**
The recreation of this study has a few, slight deviations from the original for sake of practicality. This survey will be given using Qualtrics rather than Amazon's Mechanical Turk; and participants will be awarded 0.5 SONA credit rather than $0.50.
**Materials**
The questions, response options and scoring instructions can be found [here][3]. The file contains questions about
- the Socioeconomic Status (SES)
- the Cognitive Reappraisal Ability (CRA)
- the Habitual Cognitive Reappraisal Use (ERQ subscale)
- Depressive Symptoms (CES-D)
- Life Stress (PSS-4)
The full Troy et al. (2017) paper can be accessed [here][4] (may require a library subscription)
[1]: mailto:leakhildebrandt@gmail.com
[2]: mailto:crep.psych@gmail.com
[3]: https://osf.io/7yscv/
[4]: https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Femo0000210