“…Secondly, emotion regulation includes the modulation of emotional arousal and intensity to control behavioral responses through conscious cognitive strategies (Fresco, Mennin, Heimberg, & Ritter, 2013). A growing number of studies evidenced that maladaptive emotion regulation strategies, such as the avoidance of unwanted emotions, predicted high level of emotional disorders and anxiety (Shallcross, Troy, Boland, & Mauss, 2010;Vanderhasselt et al, 2014;Zlomke & Hahn, 2010), which is especially relevant for individuals' positive attitudes (Sebri, Savioni, Triberti, Mazzocco, & Pravettoni, 2019;Triberti, Gorini, Savioni, Sebri, & Pravettoni, 2019). At the same time, Mashal et al (2020) showed a negative correlation between worry and positive emotion regulation strategies (for example, cognitive reappraisal).…”