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Emotional control can be thought of as a facet of emotion regulation, but refers primarily to attempts by an individual to manage the generation, experience, or expression of emotion and/or one’s emotional responses (Gross 1999). Emotional control, like emotional expression, is tied the broader context of emotion regulation. Emotional control can occur as part of antecedent-focused regulation prior to generation of emotion or through response-focused regulation after an emotion has been generated (Gross 1998a). Emotional control can refer to the ability to exercise influence over emotion and modulate emotion through the use of cognitive or behavioral strategies (Gross 1998b; Lazarus and Folkman 1984). The ways in which individuals are able to achieve emotional control have implications for health and well-being (Beck 1995; Berg et al. 2009).
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Skinner, M. (2019). Emotional Control. In: Gellman, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_950-2
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