Abstract

GOMEZ-RIVERA, Yuri Bibiana  and  ACOSTA-SILVA, David Arturo. Helping and Receiving Help from Others: Elucidating Interpersonal Emotional Regulation. Divers.: Perspect. Psicol. [online]. 2021, vol.17, n.2, pp.62-74.  Epub July 01, 2021. ISSN 1794-9998.  https://doi.org/10.15332/22563067.7080.

Literature available in the field of emotional regulation has presented a broad overview of the process through which we influence our own emotions. Nonetheless, few studies have focused on highlighting the importance of helping others in the management of their emotional states. This paper aims to synthesize, discuss, and organize some theoretical and empirical contributions to interpersonal emotional regulation. The paper presents how emotional regulation has been analyzed since the emergence of these studies in the 1990s, including the characteristics, processes, classes, motives, elements, and consequences of interpersonal emotional regulation reported in the literature. It is concluded that there is a lack of theoretical consensus among researchers and a lack of research in different fields of knowledge, such as education. There is also an incipient exploration in the Latin American context and a lack of studies with children and adolescents. These limitations can help to point out theoretical gaps and motivate future researchers to collaborate in research production in these fields.

Keywords : emotions; interpersonal emotional regulation; emotional control; emotional regulation; features; processes; motives.

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