This kind of application could offer people a structured approach to promoting effective and efficient ER and therefore help them to gain control of problematic emotions while avoiding the drain on resources that is associated with effortful forms of ER.
Stillbirth is painful in all cultures, and the more problematic emotions are involved, and the less social support and acknowledgement of their loss received, the more complicated their grief [ 42- 44].
Data collection may have facilitated a rather straightforward description of (particularly self-harmful and/or revengeful) mental images, which may have been withheld by participants in a one-on-one setting with a clinician due to these images causing the participants to feel ashamed and to experience other problematic emotions.
Our findings of patients' and GPs' willingness to understand low mood as something explicable for a person in adversity, and to reframe anxiety as a potentially protective personal characteristic, are in keeping with a joint attempt to accommodate these otherwise problematic emotions in a way which avoids showing weakness or threatening the doctor-patient relationship.
Although the ICU workers thought that it was important to give a human dimension to their work, they also perceived affects and emotions as problematic, as emotional involvement was viewed as potentially distressing for the ICU workers and, therefore, as carrying a risk of suboptimal professional performance.
Alexithymia and other problematic patterns of emotion processing is assessed by the Dimensions of Emotional Openness (DOE; [ 48]).
Let me end, however, on a constructive note, by suggesting a third way between the retention of the problematic metacategory of "emotion" and its abandonment in favour of studies of discrete feeling states such as love, anger, fear, and the rest.
This is seen as problematic because as emotions are central to how stakeholders deal with information (Buijs and Lawrence 2013, Fischer 2009).
This study utilized an experimental design to examine whether targeting emotion regulation reduced problematic dietary restriction.
Besides, ADHD often occurs together with mood swings, problematic self-regulation and poor emotion regulation [ 42].
