Pre-work: Review all related material covered in the text, then complete the self-assessment called What is Your Emotional Personality?
Written Assignment Instructions: Recall a situation where you had to regulate your emotions. Here are a few possible examples:
Your work supervisor appears to favor the day shift in terms of accountability and additional duties. You work the night shift and you become very frustrated at a shift change meeting.
You have an older relative who consistently antagonizes your younger sibling about a variety of things (e.g. their appearance, their taste in music, etc.) in front of others at family gatherings.
Discuss the following three questions on an MS Word Doc that is at least one full and no more than two double-spaced pages. Please add a Cover Page, use Times New Roman 12 point font and do NOT include references as this paper is based on your personal experience.
Which of the five emotion regulation strategies did you apply?
Why were those strategies chosen?
Based upon the results from the self-assessment, how difficult was it to change your emotions?