Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Training in Visual-Spatial and Verbal Working Memory Capacity

Previous studies investigating the role of emotion in working memory suggest that emotion plays an important role in working memory. The present research aimed at investigating the effectiveness of process emotion regulation training in visual-spatial and verbal working memory.
Therefore, 26 students of Kharazmi University (16 females and 10 males) were selected through volunteer sampling and underwent the of Process Emotion regulation strategies training. All individuals were evaluated during three stages of training (prior, meanwhile and subsequent to the training) using the Working Memory Index. Variance analysis with repeated measurement and Bonferroni post-hoc test were used in for analyzing the results.
The results indicated that Process Emotion regulation training increases the visual-spatial and verbal working memory capacities.
With regards to the results of the present research, it could be concluded that emotion regulation might lead to information preservation and boost the verbal and visual-spatial capacity of working memory by the means of decreasing the impact of emotions influencing the deficit in working memory function.