Emotion Regulation in Self and Others

This chapter provides an overview of emotion regulation, with a particular emphasis on topics relevant to parenting. We begin with a discussion of emotion generation and emotion regulation. Next, we present one of the most commonly used frameworks for studying emotion regulation – the process model of emotion regulation – with particular attention to how it can be applied to emotion regulation that takes place in interpersonal and familial contexts. We then provide a more in-depth overview of interpersonal emotion regulation. Finally, we briefly review key findings on emotion regulation from the developmental literature through the lens of the process model and discuss key directions for future research.