Running head: GROUP-BASED EMOTION REGULATION AND REGULATORY FOCUS 1 1 I don´t fit, so I blame you? - Influence of Regulatory Focus and Fit on Emotion Generation and 2 Regulation in Single- and Group-Context Christopher M. Jones1,2 & Daniel Memmert2 1 Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany 2 Institute of Exercise Training and Sport Informatics, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany 3 4 5 6 7 8 Author note 9 Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Christopher M. Jones, 10 Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Grazer Str. 4, 28359 11 Bremen, Germany. E-mail:
[email protected] GROUP-BASED EMOTION REGULATION AND REGULATORY FOCUS 2 12 Abstract 13 Person-environment-interactions play a main role in the process of emotional experience. 14 While Regulatory Focus Theory has been adopted to illustrate how some goal-oriented parts of 15 this process might shape by proposing a regulatory fit between individual and environmental 16 characteristics, whether this fit not only implies feeling “right” but feeling “good” or at least 17 cope better, has not been tested empirically. In this study, we extend earlier research on the 18 influence of regulatory fit to the generation and regulation of emotions. We additionally 19 emphasize the role of the context, by integrating current work on group-based emotion regulation 20 in comparing single- and group-environments. We used a within-subjects design, with 2 21 (situational focus) x 2 (single/group environment) levels. Thirty-two male football players 22 participated in one football-specific task per level.