Emotional self-regulation
Every day, people are continually exposed to a wide variety of potentially arousing stimuli. 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. 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. For example, there is a significant association between emotion dysregulation and symptoms of depression, anxiety, eating pathology, and substance abuse. Individuals diagnosed with mood disorders and anxiety disorders also experience dysfunction in the automatic regulation of emotions, further impacting their emotion regulation abilities. Higher levels of emotion regulation are likely to be related to both high levels of social competence and the expression of socially appropriate emotions.
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