Emotion Regulation
Emotion regulation refers to the processes by which people influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express them. James Gross's process model (1998) is the dominant framework, organising strategies from early antecedent-focused approaches (situation selection, attentional deployment, cognitive reappraisal) to later response-focused ones (expressive suppression). Reappraisal — reinterpreting the meaning of an event — is the most adaptive strategy; it reduces both subjective distress and amygdala activation, while suppression leaves the internal experience unchanged and carries physiological and social costs. Emotion regulation difficulties are transdiagnostic, central to depression, anxiety, BPD, and PTSD, and directly targeted by CBT, DBT, and MBCT.
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