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Extended process model
An elaboration of the process model of emotion regulation that treats regulation as a form of valuation and distinguishes three stages: identifying whether to regulate, selecting a strategy, and implementing it, with monitoring throughout. It shifts attention from which strategy is best to how strategies are chosen and adjusted. Laboratory studies of regulation choice are one line of evidence it draws on. Gross's process model sorts regulation strategies by when they act on an emotion, and the extended model adds how strategies are chosen. This essay explains both, the evidence on strategy effects, and where venting and reappraisal sit. The works the definition rests on, with the level of evidence each was appraised at. (2015). Emotion regulation: Current status and future prospects. doi:10.1080/1047840X.2014.940781 Supports the conceptual claims that the process model groups strategies by the point at which they act and that the extended process model adds identification, selection and implementation stages. It selects evidence to illustrate the model rather than testing it. (2011). Emotion-regulation choice. doi:10.1177/0956797611418350 Supports the claim that participants relatively preferred reappraisal in low-intensity and distraction in high-intensity negative situations. It measures choice, not the long-term consequences of those choices.Where the site uses it
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