The textbook lists five strategies for regulating emotions: situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change, and response modulation.
Think of a particularly emotionally challenging time in your life.
1. Did you engage in any of these emotion regulation strategies? If so, which ones did you use, and
why do you think you engaged in these strategies?
2. Is there anything that made it more or less challenging to implement a strategy?
3. In general, what might make some emotion regulation strategies more challenging to engage in
than others, and what might facilitate the adoption of particular strategies?
4. Now that you've learned more about emotion regulation strategies, which might you try to use in
your own life more frequently, and how could you help yourself to adopt productive emotion
regulation habits?