Linguistic Distancing on Social Media: Indicators of Emotion Regulation Across Age Groups

arXiv:2606.30957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Managing our emotional responses to events is key to emotional well-being, a process referred to as emotion regulation in psychology. Previous work has established that the degree to which we distance events is a type of emotion regulation. When we psychologically distance from events there can be markers in our language. These markers have been referred to as linguistic distancing. We build upon a previous metric to operationalize linguistic dista...