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Situation selection
The earliest family of strategies in the process model of emotion regulation: choosing to enter or avoid situations according to the emotions they are expected to bring. It can prevent unwanted emotions altogether, but used rigidly it overlaps with avoidance and can narrow a person's life. Situation modification, the next family, changes a situation once one is in it. 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. (1998). The emerging field of emotion regulation: An integrative review. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.2.3.271 Supports definitions and the five-point process model used across the library. A conceptual framework, not a test of which strategies work. (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.Where the site uses it
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