Episode 10: Emotion Regulation
Description
Emotion regulation is defined as the ability to affect one's own emotional state. It can involve either increasing positive emotion, decreasing negative emotion, or both. Generally, it involves changing your thoughts or behaviors, sometimes in conscious and sometimes in unconscious ways. For example, you can focus on the silver linings or remove yourself from a difficult situation to regulate your emotions. When you regulate your emotions with healthy strategies, you feel better and can more quickly recover from stressful experiences. Therefore, emotion regulation is sometimes thought to be a type of coping mechanism.
Resources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864994/
https://positivepsychology.com/emotion-regulation-questionnaire/
https://positivepsychology.com/emotion-regulation-worksheets-strategies-dbt-skills/
https://dialecticalbehaviortherapy.com/emotion-regulation/
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