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application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01 The student, Kelly Hohl, accepted the attached license on 2025-07-17 at 13:46. The student, Kelly Hohl, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2025-07-17 at 14:03. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2025-07-17 at 18:22. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #22627 on 2025-10-25 at 15:54:17 Affect regulation strategies, resilience, and neural mechanisms: evidence from cross-sectional and intervention studies Hohl, Kelly Marie 2025-07-17 Dolcos, Florin Dolcos, Sanda Dolcos, Florin Fairbairn, Catharine Berenbaum, Howard Kwapil, Thomas Resilience Emotion Control Affect Regulation Cognitive Flexibility Coping Training eng Adverse experiences and emotional challenges are inherent aspects of life. Importantly, people vary in how they respond to such challenges, faring across outcomes that are either better or worse than expected. The ideal outcome is resilience, which emphasizes one’s ability to overcome or positively adapt to adverse circumstances and is linked to mental health benefits. Therefore, I am interested in investigating and advocating for ways in which individuals can protect themselves against distress and achieve resilience. The present research consists of a series of studies aimed to: a) identify helpful affect regulation strategies and psychological mechanisms for resilience in the context of a unique stressor – the COVID-19 pandemic (Chapter 2); b) consider the operationalization and measurement of cognitive flexibility as an important component of resilience (Chapter 3); and c) assess the effectiveness of a cognitive-emotional training intervention incorporating the flexible use of affect regulation strategies (Chapter 4). As this is an evolving field of research, these studies contribute to the field by providing novel findings, integrating coping and emotion regulation approaches, and implementing a combination of methodologies. Findings from the current research have important implications for identifying protective affect regulation strategies, utilizing cognitive flexibility, and informing the development of targeted interventions to enhance resilience. 2025-08 Text https://hdl.handle.net/2142/130205 Copyright 2025 Kelly Hohl Psychology Psychology University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. Dissertation