Emotion regulation
- Consists of extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and modifying emotional reactions, especially their intensive and temporal features, to achieve one’s goals (Thompson, 1994, pp. 27-28) art 9

Emotional self-awareness
1. I generally pay attention to my feelings
2. I usually know how I feel
3. I am poor at recognising my emotional reactions to events (RS)
4. I am not in touch with my emotions (RS)

Emotional self-understanding
1. I find it difficult to make sense out of my feelings (RS)
2. I am often unclear about what I am feeling (RS)
3. Sometimes it is not easy to distinguish whether I feel sad or angry (RS)
4. I can easily explain to others how I feel
5. It is not important for me to understand what I feel (RS)
6. I understand what causes emotions such as anger

Emotional self-management
1. When I’m upset, I find it difficult to control my behaviour (RS)
2. I am able to remain under control during an argument
3. I think I am good at controlling my emotions
4. I often feel overwhelmed by emotions I don't want to have (RS)
5. When I am angry, I don’t hide it (RS)
6. My decisions are rarely influenced by my emotions
7. I isolate myself from my feelings when I think they are preventing me to reach my goals

Reappraisal
1. When I am in a stressful situation, I try to think about it in a way that helps me to stay calm
2. I often control my emotions by changing the way I think about the situation I’m in
3. When I want to feel more positive emotion, I try to look at things from a different prospective
4. When I want to feel less negative emotion, I try to look at things from a different prospective

Suppression
1. When I feel positive emotions, I try not to express them
2. When I feel negative emotions, I try not to express them
3. I often control my emotions by not expressing