The Extended Process Model of Emotion Regulation: Elaborations, Applications, and Future Directions

Three observations motivated the target article (Gross, this issue). The first is that emotion regulation processes play a crucial role in health and illness, and thus warrant deeper understanding. The second is that a growing appreciation of the importance of emotion regulation processes has led to an extraordinary increase in research in this area. The third is that there is an urgent need for a process-oriented framework to integrate and guide this research, one that would extend the process model of emotion regulation, first proposed nearly two decades ago (Gross, 1998b). I was therefore delighted that the dozen-plus dis-tinguished scholars who provided commentaries on the target article not only endorsed these three moti-vating observations but also saw merit in the