Emotion Regulation in Adolescents

Abstract

The emotional life of adolescents is different from children and adults, they react more strongly to situations that emit emotions, experience negative emotions, feel various mixed emotions, and flare up more quickly in certain situations. This article provides an overview of research on regulation of emotions in adolescents in the past decade. In this article three important points are discussed: 1) factors that contribute to the development of emotional regulation skills in the adolescent phase, 2) the motivation of adolescents to regulate emotions compared to other age groups, and 3) the development of research in the past ten years. Based on the literature review that has been carried out, adolescents experience more varied variations of emotions than children but do not have many variations of emotional regulation skills. Therefore, there is a need to guide adolescent emotional regulation skills. Thus it is suggested for future research, there is a need for a program to develop the regulation of adolescent emotions.

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