The self-regulation of emotion (original) (raw)

Abstract

In the present chapter, we contribute to the ongoing integration between self-regulation and emotion regulation research by reviewing contemporary research on the self-regulation of emotion. This chapter has a fourfold plan. First, we consider the "emotion" part of emotion regulation, by discussing the kinds of responses that people may target in the emotion regulation process. Second, we turn to the "regulation" part of emotion regulation, by discussing the control processes that may underlie emotion regulation. Here, we review models that emphasize effortful control processes (Erber & Erber, 2000; McRae, Oschner, and Gross, this volume; Ochsner & Gross, 2008), as well as models that touch upon more intuitive aspects of emotion regulation (Koole, 2009). Third, we consider the emerging literature on training self- and emotion-regulatory skills and how it may be informed by recent models of emotion regulation. Fourth and last, we provide a summary of our main conc...

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