Describing Emotional Regulation Strategies

Question 1

How many types of emotional regulation strategies are there?

Answer 1

5

Question 2

What are the two types of emotional regulation strategies?

Answer 2

Antecedent-focused emotional regulation

Response-focused emotional regulation

Question 3

What is a antecedent-focused emotional regulation strategy?

Answer 3

May occur before a response is fully generated

Question 4

What is a response-focused emotional regulation strategy?

Answer 4

Occurs after an emotional response has been fully generated

Question 5

What are the types of antecedent-focused emotional regulation strategies?

Answer 5

• Situation selection
• Situation modification
• Attention deployment
• Cognitive change

Question 6

What are the types of response-focused emotional regulation strategies?

Answer 6

Response modulation

Question 7

What is Situation selection

Answer 7

Choosing whether or not to enter a potentially emotional situation

Question 8

What is Situation modification?

Answer 8

Modify the impact of the emotional situation

Question 9

What is Attention deployment?

Answer 9

Situations have different aspects; choose which aspect to focus attention on

Question 10

What is cognitive change?

Answer 10

Change the way one interprets meaning of a situation

Question 11

What is response modulation?

Answer 11

Either suppressing, which can help in the short term but could potentially cause an increase in negative emotions in the long term, or avoiding, which could if maintained long term can result in issues in everyday life (eg work)