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Chapter 2 - Emotion Regulation in Self and Others

from Part I - Conceptual Foundations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2024

By
Kate Petrova  and
James J. Gross
Edited by
Isabelle Roskam ,
James J. Gross  and
Moïra Mikolajczak
Isabelle Roskam
Affiliation:
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
James J. Gross
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Moïra Mikolajczak
Affiliation:
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
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Summary

This chapter provides an overview of emotion regulation, with a particular emphasis on topics relevant to parenting. We begin with a discussion of emotion generation and emotion regulation. Next, we present one of the most commonly used frameworks for studying emotion regulation – the process model of emotion regulation – with particular attention to how it can be applied to emotion regulation that takes place in interpersonal and familial contexts. We then provide a more in-depth overview of interpersonal emotion regulation. Finally, we briefly review key findings on emotion regulation from the developmental literature through the lens of the process model and discuss key directions for future research.

Keywords

parentingemotion regulationsituation selectionsituation modificationattentional deploymentcognitive changeresponse modulationinterpersonal emotion regulationself-focused emotion regulationother-focused emotion regulation
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Emotion Regulation and Parenting , pp. 35 - 54
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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