LEROY Tanguy

1. Social regulation of emotions

- Conceptual and empirical links between emotion, emotion regulation, adjustment, adaptation to change, health, quality of life, well-being, response shift, post-traumatic growth, identity, and the adjustment of beliefs and social representations.

- Assessment of emotion measurement, its regulation (both individual and social), and their consequences (quality of life, identity).

- Development and evolution of individual and social emotion regulation skills within couples and families facing health-related challenges.

2. Individual and collective prevention and management of health risks

- Consequences of individual and collective emotion regulation processes—and associated difficulties—on the identification, evaluation, and management of health risks, the social determinability of preventive behaviors, health-related decision-making, and therapeutic adherence.

- Determinants, modalities, and consequences of interpersonal communication—particularly emotional—related to health risks, their prevention, and their management.

3. Identity adjustments following health challenges

- Contextual, individual, and social determinants of individual and collective emotion regulation processes, and the consequences of these processes and related difficulties on health, quality of life, life priorities, and the social representations of patients and their relatives.

- Identity changes, experiential gaps, redistribution of social roles, and adjustment of interpersonal relationships following critical health challenges.