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. 2008 Dec;2(3):156-163.
doi: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2008.00058.x.

Beyond Emotion Regulation: Emotion Utilization and Adaptive Functioning

Carroll Izard  1 , Kevin Stark, Christopher Trentacosta, David Schultz
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Beyond Emotion Regulation: Emotion Utilization and Adaptive Functioning

Carroll Izard et al. Child Dev Perspect. 2008 Dec.

Abstract

Recent research indicates that emotionality, emotion information processing, emotion knowledge, and discrete emotion experiences may influence and interact with emotion utilization, that is, the effective use of the inherently adaptive and motivational functions of emotions. Strategies individuals learn for emotion modulation and emotion utilization become stabilized in emerging affective-cognitive structures, or emotion schemas. In these emotion schemas, the feeling/motivational component of emotion and perceptual and cognitive processes interact dynamically and continually. The concepts and techniques that promote emotion knowledge, emotion regulation, and emotion utilization have proved effective in promoting favorable behavioral outcomes in both emotion-based and cognitive-behavioral interventions. In this paper, we suggest that current conceptualizations of emotion regulation need to be extended to take these interactions into account.

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An Emotion-Based Preventive Intervention Increased Children’s Emotion Knowledge Which in Turn Mediated an Increase in Emotion Regulation. Emotion Competence (An Aggregate Index of Emotion Regulation and Emotion Knowledge) Mediated an Increase in Social Competence Reflecting Increased Emotion Utilization, (Izard, et al., in press).
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