Emotion regulation as a process to foster resilience

Demonstrating resilience involves being faced with significant adversity, which is inherently emotional. Coping effectively with negative emotions is important to demonstrating resilience and bouncing back from stressors. In this chapter, we draw from emotions literature on core affect and emotion episodes and the process model of emotion regulation to explain how emotional experience and emotion regulation are important mechanisms of resilience. Despite the connection between resilience and emotion regulation, the relationship is largely neglected. We discuss how individuals and organizations may draw on emotion regulation strategies to foster resilience.