TABLE 3.

Cognitive strategies of the CERQ.

Cognitve strategies	Description of the strategies
Adaptive strategies
Putting into perspective	Decrease and relativize the severity of the event
Acceptance	To resign and accept the irreversibility of the negative experience
Positive reappraisal	Thoughts that highlight some positive aspect of the unpleasant event
Positive refocusing	Having pleasent and joyous thougths different from the negative event
Refocus on planning	Thinking about how to solve the problem
Maladaptive strategies
Rumiation	State of excessive worry by negative thoughts and feelings
Catastrophizing	To think about the horrible thing of what happend and conclude that it is the worse experience lived, even compared with what other people have experienced
Self-blame	Thoughts that attribute the cause of the negative event and emotion to oneself
Other-blame	Make others responsible for the negative event that happened

Adapted from Dominguez-Sanchez et al. (2013).