Table 2.

Means and standard deviations for spontaneous and instructed emotion regulation across emotion regulation conditions and participant groups

	PPU (n = 35)	Control (n = 33)
Spontaneous emotion regulation
Emotion expression	3.40 ± 1.33	3.55 ± 2.27
Attention Reorientation	2.57 ± 1.33	2.36 ± 1.50
Situation Modification	3.89 ± 1.60	4.88 ± 2.03
Reappraisal	3.66 ± 2.07	5.09 ± 2.04
Substance abuse	1.17 ± 1.56	0.79 ± 1.17
Learned helpless	2.14 ± 2.02	1.91 ± 1.83
Acting out	2.17 ± 1.76	2.06 ± 1.34
Rumination	2.89 ± 2.11	3.64 ± 2.34
Instructed emotion regulation
Valence
Attend-Neutral	5.40 ± 0.60	5.40 ± 0.47
Attend-Negative	2.71 ± 0.88	2.45 ± 0.76
Reappraisal-Negative	3.38 ± 0.94	3.53 ± 0.77
Arousal
Attend-Neutral	4.19 ± 1.28	4.02 ± 1.31
Attend-Negative	6.55 ± 1.05	6.45 ± 0.81
Reappraisal-Negative	5.88 ± 1.18	6.03 ± 1.13
LPP
Attend-Neutral	3.04 ± 4.02	3.62 ± 2.75
Attend-Negative	6.37 ± 3.33	6.20 ± 3.57
Reappraisal-Negative	5.28 ± 4.20	5.16 ± 3.53

Note. LPP, Late Positive Potential; PPU, Problematic Pornography Use.