Integrative review reveals a five-stage process model of emotion regulation across human behavior, highlighting key intervention points for affective control.
Key Points
To define emotion regulation within an evolutionary framework and establish an integrative process model that bridges disparate psychological disciplines.
Synthesized psychological literature across evolutionary theory, affective science, and clinical psychology.
Differentiated emotion regulation from related concepts, including coping, mood regulation, defense mechanisms, and affect regulation.
Characterized emotions as coordinated response tendencies that unfold over time and remain malleable to intervention.
Identified five distinct regulatory stages in the emotion-generative cycle: situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change, and response modulation.