I think that at this point, because of the medium if not
necessarily differences in perspective, the discussion is likely to be too fractured to bear much more fruit.
Looking at individual
differences in emotion regulation from the
perspective of regulation strategies, research has shown that individuals» greater use of suppression — a strategy that downregulates the expression of negative emotions, but does not
necessarily reduce the experience of it — was related to a greater experience of negative emotions and depressive symptoms and lower levels of optimism.