cognitive emotion regulation
Cognitive emotion regulation. Cognitive emotion regulation as described by
Garnefski,
Kraaij, & Spinhoven (2001), which is the focus of the current study, refers to the conscious,
cognitive way of managing and controlling the intake of emotionally arousing information.
Cognitive emotion regulation is thought to fall under the broader category of emotion
regulation;
“all the extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and
modifying
emotional reactions” (Gross, 1999; Thompson 1994, p.27 as cited in Garnefski & Kraaij,
2007).
Regulating emotion and coping strategies can be discussed from different
approaches. According to Gross (2001) and Gross and John (2003), the analysis of emotions
unfolding in the course of time revealed that the initial influence of reappraisal and
suppression
happens at different points of emotion-generative. Particularly, reappraisal as an antecedent-
focused strategy operates before the complete activation of emotion response tendencies
happens. Then, it is expected to alter the temporal course of the emotional response. A
response-
focused strategy is suppression that interferes when the emotion is already emerging and after
the
response tendencies are fully produced. In addition, reappraisers experience and express
greater
positive emotion, whereas suppressors experience and express lesser positive emotion yet
experience greater negative emotion (Gross & John, 2003). Furthermore, Sutton and
Wheatley
((2003) classified the emotion into positive and negative. Psychologist typically names
emotions
as positive when the emotion deals withpleasure or takes place while one is achieving his/her
goal. Whereas negative emotions, normally involved anger and frustration.
As Lazarus and Folkman (1984) put it in this way, coping is the ‘constantly
changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and internal demands
that
Cognitive emotion regulation. Cognitive emotion regulation as described by
Garnefski,
Kraaij, & Spinhoven (2001), which is the focus of the current study, refers to the conscious,
cognitive way of managing and controlling the intake of emotionally arousing information.
Cognitive emotion regulation is thought to fall under the broader category of emotion
regulation;
“all the extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and
modifying
emotional reactions” (Gross, 1999; Thompson 1994, p.27 as cited in Garnefski & Kraaij,
2007).
Regulating emotion and coping strategies can be discussed from different
approaches. According to Gross (2001) and Gross and John (2003), the analysis of emotions
unfolding in the course of time revealed that the initial influence of reappraisal and
suppression
happens at different points of emotion-generative. Particularly, reappraisal as an antecedent-
focused strategy operates before the complete activation of emotion response tendencies
happens. Then, it is expected to alter the temporal course of the emotional response. A
response-
focused strategy is suppression that interferes when the emotion is already emerging and after
the
response tendencies are fully produced. In addition, reappraisers experience and express
greater
positive emotion, whereas suppressors experience and express lesser positive emotion yet
experience greater negative emotion (Gross & John, 2003). Furthermore, Sutton and
Wheatley
((2003) classified the emotion into positive and negative. Psychologist typically names
emotions
as positive when the emotion deals withpleasure or takes place while one is achieving his/her
goal. Whereas negative emotions, normally involved anger and frustration.
As Lazarus and Folkman (1984) put it in this way, coping is the ‘constantly
changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and internal demands
that
