• Shivani Tanwar
• Dr. Smita Pandey

There are various techniques for dealing with emotions or arousal states considering the various other environmental factors. Importance of flow of emotions in a regulated manner makes the basis of several mood and cognitive disorders. This study aims to investigate how suppressing emotions can be detrimental for cognitive reserve. Cognitive reserve is a brain’s ability to resist and adapt to neurological damage via using Cognitive reserve index questionnaire (CRIQ) by Nucci et.al.(2011) and Emotional Regulation questionnaire (ERQ) by Gross and John (2003) the two parameters are measured. ERQ consists of two components/strategies of emotional regulation i.e. expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal. A response from 75 participants were collected out of which 35 scored high on expressive suppression and 40 scored higher on cognitive reappraisal. To maintain homogeneity across the groups 35 each are taken. The research aims to compare the cognitive reserve of the two groups of young and middle age healthy adults. One group dominantly uses cognitive reappraisal and another one is using expressive suppression as an emotional regulation strategy. The aim is to also find the correlation between Cognitive reserve and emotional regulation strategies. The result of the study indicates that there is a significant difference (t value: 3.39, p<0.05) between the CRIQ Scores of both the groups. Also there is a moderate positive correlation between emotional regulation and cognitive reserve (r: 0.57 and p<0.05) & in between cognitive reappraisal and cognitive reserve (r: 0.65 and p<0.05). On contrary there is a highly negative correlation between expressive suppression and cognitive reserve (r: -0.70 and p<0.05) In conclusion, the findings suggest cognitive reappraisal can be an ideal way of dealing with emotional adversities and in maintaining and enhancing the good levels of cognitive reserve.

"Impact of expressive suppression as an emotional regulation strategy on Cognitive Reserve", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no.f197-f203, September-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309524.pdf

"Impact of expressive suppression as an emotional regulation strategy on Cognitive Reserve", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no. ppf197-f203, September-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309524.pdf