Emotional self-regulation or
regulation of emotion is the ability to respond to the ongoing demands of
experience with the range of
emotions in a manner that is socially tolerable and sufficiently flexible to permit spontaneous reactions as well as the ability to delay spontaneous reactions as needed. It can also be defined as
extrinsic and
intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and modifying emotional reactions. Emotion self-regulation belongs to the broader set of emotion-regulation processes, which includes the regulation of one's own feelings and the
regulation of other people's feelings.