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This article takes a critical approach to emotion regulation suggesting that the concept needs supplementing with a relational position on the generation and restraint of emotion. I chart the relational approach to emotion, challenging the “two-step” model of emotion regulation. From this, a more interdisciplinary approach to emotion is developed using concepts from social science to show the limits of instrumental, individualistic, and cognitivist orientations in the psychology of emotion regulation, centred on appraisal theory. Using a social interactionist approach I develop an ontological position in which social relations form the fundamental contexts in which emotions are generated, toned, and restrained, so that regulation is decentred and seen as just one moment or aspect in the relational patterning of emotion.

If the short-term effectiveness or long-term adaptivity of emotion regulation (ER) depends on the specific ER (covert or overt) behaviors that are executed, it is important to know what it is that leads to those (more or less adaptive or maladaptive) behaviors. While, in brief, ER refers to influencing emotions, meta-emotion-regulation (MER) refers to influencing ER. We show how the concept of MER extends previous ideas and propose potential targets of MER. Furthermore, we derive potential MER strategies, tactics, and techniques that may help increase desirable and decrease undesirable ER behavior, opening up a whole new field of investigation for ER research that could lead to new and refined interventions and treatments. We also introduce the idea of a Hierarchical Taxonomy of Meta-Emotion-Regulation (HiTOM) and other promising ways to move forward.

Emotions and moods have been distinguished in the literature. If they are distinct, we may expect emotion regulation and mood regulation to be distinct too. We show that although emotion regulation and mood regulation are considered theoretically distinct, they are often confounded empirically. We review characteristics proposed to distinguish emotions from moods by different theoretical approaches to emotion. We also review challenges to these propositions, suggesting that one valid distinction involves intentionality. Building on the above, we discuss possible differences between emotion regulation and mood regulation. Finally, we encourage the use of accurate terminology, argue for the importance of empirically testing hypotheses regarding distinctions between emotion regulation and mood regulation, and discuss possible implications.

People’s ability to regulate emotions is crucial to healthy emotional functioning. One overlooked aspect in emotion regulation research is that knowledge about the source of emotions can vary across situations and individuals, which could impact one’s ability for emotion regulation. Using Ecological Momentary Assessments (N=396; 7 days; 5,466 observations), we measured adults' degree of knowledge about the source of their negative emotions. We used language processing to show that higher reported knowledge led to more concrete written descriptions of the source. We found that higher knowledge of the source predicted more emotion regulation attempts, increased use of emotion regulation strategies that target the source (cognitive reappraisal, situation modification) versus strategies that do not (distraction, emotional eating), greater perceived success in regulating emotions, and greater well-being. These patterns were evident both within-person, and between-persons. Findings suggest that pinpointing the source of emotions might play an important role in emotion regulation.