response-focused emotion regulation
in the process model of emotion regulation, a form of emotion control in which, following an event that has triggered an emotional response, one countermands this response and suppresses the urge to react emotionally to the event (called expressive suppression). For example, one might try to look composed while feeling devastated or to look calm while feeling angry or resentful. Since this type of emotion regulation occurs relatively late in the emotion process, potentially after affective experience has already been generated, long-term reliance on its strategy of expressive suppression may have deleterious effects on psychological and physiological well-being. Compare antecedent-focused emotion regulation. [proposed in 1998 by U.S. clinical psychologist James J. Gross]