Emotion Regulation as a self-regulating system
Trait regulation of emotion modeled as a dampening oscillating process
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complex systems resources
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The dampening process is defined by the strength of a developmental system attractor. Strong attractors dampen very quickly and have very little emotional lability, whereas weak attractors dampen more slowly and are prone to emotional lability.
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Weak Attractor
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Strong Attractor
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System modeled as a latent variable SEM