Emotional Regulation
Dimension 45 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Emotional Regulation measures how expressions describe monitoring, managing, suppressing, distancing from, or reshaping emotional experience and emotional display. It encompasses both efforts to contain emotions and deliberate attempts to alter their intensity, meaning, or outward expression.
evidence final name · Criterion Negative Alterations
Minimal Emotional Regulation
Expressions activating this band show only limited or loosely defined management of emotion, often as simple holding in of worried feelings or general self-control without a clear strategy for changing emotional experience.
Moderate Emotional Regulation
Expressions activating this band describe deliberate efforts to reduce distress by calming down, avoiding emotional triggers, distracting attention, or keeping emotions balanced and concealed.
High Emotional Regulation
Expressions activating this band describe active cognitive and interpersonal regulation, such as reframing situations positively, redirecting thought toward pleasant content, correcting unwanted thinking, or seeking someone to talk to for relief.
Intense Emotional Regulation
Expressions activating this band center on sustained monitoring and control of emotional states and their expression, including careful suppression of both negative and positive emotions and close attention to how emotions shape thought and behavior.
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Minimal Criterion Negative Alterations: Criterion negative alterations is present at a low level. Expressions activating this band reflect early or diffuse criterion negative alterations.
Moderate Criterion Negative Alterations: Criterion negative alterations is experienced here as direct functional disruption, reflecting interference with daily life and measurable impairment. Unlike the band below, where criterion negative alterations was characterized by the cognitive and anticipatory form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band likely reflect direct functional disruption from criterion negative alterations.
Intense Criterion Negative Alterations: Criterion negative alterations is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where criterion negative alterations was characterized by direct functional disruption, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band reflect criterion negative alterations at this level of intensity.
Peak Criterion Negative Alterations: Criterion negative alterations is clearly present at this level. Compared to the band below, criterion negative alterations is more intense and concentrated but retains the same essential character. Expressions activating this band reflect criterion negative alterations at this level of intensity.