Funcionalidad de las estrategias de autorregulación y regulación interpersonal de la ira y la tristeza

The present study analyzes whether the use of adaptive strategies for the
regulation of anger and sadness is congruently associated with the perception
that one has successfully improved the emotional experience of oneself (emotional
self-regulation) and of others (interpersonal regulation). 296 students recalled
episodes of anger and sadness and replied to the Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CIRE-43) and to a scale for the assessment of achieved regulation emotional goals. Results confirm that a) participants use more adaptive than
maladaptive strategies, b) participants use more strategies to regulate their own
emotions than those of other people, c) participants tend to use the same strategies
for self-regulation as for interpersonal regulation and d) there is a core set of
emotion regulation strategies that are adaptive both for self regulation and for
interpersonal regulation, because their use was followed by the perception of improvement in the achievement of personal and interpersonal goals (functionality)