“…Maladaptive emotion regulation strategies have robust associations with depression and anxiety. For example, lower use of cognitive WINTER 2019 PSI CHI JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH reappraisal (i.e., reinterpreting a potentially emotionally challenging event in a way that alters the emotional impact; Gross & John, 2003) and higher use of expressive suppression (i.e., inhibiting expressions of emotion; Gross & John, 2003) have been linked with lower positive emotion, lower wellbeing, and higher negative emotion (Gross & John, 2003), and with more symptoms of depression and anxiety (Dryman & Heimberg, 2018;Loevaas et al, 2018). Psychological flexibility, "the ability to contact the present moment more fully as a conscious human being, and to change or persist in behavior when doing so serves valued ends" (Hayes, Luoma, Bond, Masuda, & Lillis, 2006, p. 7), is a related construct that has also been strongly linked with depression and anxiety.…”