Abstract
The emerging field of emotion regulation studies how individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express them. This review takes an evolutionary perspective and characterizes emotion in terms of response tendencies. Emotion regulation is defined and distinguished from coping, mood regulation, defense, and affect regulation. In the increasingly specialized discipline of psychology, the field of emotion regulation cuts across traditional boundaries and provides common ground. According to a process model of emotion regulation, emotion may be regulated at five points in the emotion generative process: (a) selection of the situation, (b) modification of the situation, (c) deployment of attention, (d) change of cognitions, and (e) modulation of responses. The field of emotion regulation promises new insights into age-old questions about how people manage their emotions.
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Affective sciencePsychologyMoodField (mathematics)Emotional regulationCoping (psychology)Affect (linguistics)Cognitive psychologyExpressive SuppressionCognitionPerspective (graphical)Generative grammarProcess (computing)Social psychologyCognitive scienceEmotion workCognitive reappraisalDevelopmental psychologyCommunicationPsychotherapistComputer science
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- 2
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- 271-299
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James J. Gross
(1998).
The Emerging Field of Emotion Regulation: An Integrative Review.
Review of General Psychology
, 2
(3)
, 271-299.
https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.2.3.271
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- 10.1037/1089-2680.2.3.271