The Fear Course Dictionary of Emotional Resilience, Emotion Regulation, Fear and Anxiety

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The ability to properly regulate one's emotions. It is a complex process that involves the initiating, inhibiting, or modulating the following aspects of functioning:

1. internal feeling states (i.e. the subjective experience of emotion),
2. emotion-related cognition's (e.g. thought reactions to a situation),
3. emotion-related physiological processes (e.g. heart rate, hormonal, or other physiological reactions), and
4. emotion-related behavior (e.g. actions or facial expressions related to emotion).

Aliases: Emotional Self-Regulation, Emotion Regulation