"Emotional self-regulation or emotion regulation is the ability to respond to the ongoing demands of experience with the range of emotions in a manner that is socially tolerable and sufficiently flexible to permit spontaneous reactions as well as the ability to delay spontaneous reactions as needed."
The courage to openly express and regulate emotions, particularly vulnerable ones like sadness, anger, and shame.
"Emotional self-regulation belongs to the broader set of emotion regulation processes, which includes both the regulation of one's own feelings and the regulation of other people's feelings."
"It can also be defined as extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and modifying emotional reactions."
"Emotion regulation is a complex process that involves initiating, inhibiting, or modulating one's state or behavior in a given situation – for example, the subjective experience (feelings), cognitive responses (thoughts), emotion-related physiological responses (for example heart rate or hormonal activity), and emotion-related behavior (bodily actions or expressions)."
"Functionally, emotion regulation can also refer to processes such as the tendency to focus one's attention to a task and the ability to suppress inappropriate behavior under instruction."
"Emotion regulation is a highly significant function in human life."
"Inappropriate, extreme or unchecked emotional reactions to such stimuli could impede functional fit within society; therefore, people must engage in some form of emotion regulation almost all of the time."
"Generally speaking, emotion dysregulation has been defined as difficulties in controlling the influence of emotional arousal on the organization and quality of thoughts, actions, and interactions."
"For example, there is a significant association between emotion dysregulation and symptoms of depression, anxiety, eating pathology, and substance abuse."
"Individuals who are emotionally dysregulated exhibit patterns of responding in which there is a mismatch between their goals, responses, and/or modes of expression, and the demands of the social environment."
"Higher levels of emotion regulation are likely to be related to both high levels of social competence and the expression of socially appropriate emotions."
"People must engage in some form of emotion regulation almost all of the time."
"For example heart rate or hormonal activity."
"To respond to the ongoing demands of experience with the range of emotions in a manner that is socially tolerable and sufficiently flexible to permit spontaneous reactions."
"Inappropriate, extreme or unchecked emotional reactions to stimuli could impede functional fit within society."
"Generally speaking, emotion dysregulation has been defined as difficulties in controlling the influence of emotional arousal on the organization and quality of thoughts, actions, and interactions."
"There is a significant association between emotion dysregulation and symptoms of depression, anxiety, eating pathology, and substance abuse."
"It can also be defined as extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and modifying emotional reactions."
"Higher levels of emotion regulation are likely to be related to both high levels of social competence and the expression of socially appropriate emotions."
"Emotion regulation is a complex process that involves initiating, inhibiting, or modulating one's state or behavior in a given situation."