Table 1.

Definitions of coping and emotion regulation.

Citation	Construct of Interest	Definition
Cicchetti and colleagues (e.g., Cicchetti, Ganiban, & Barnett, 1991)	Emotion Regulation	“For the purposes of this study, emotion regulation was defined in terms of lability, flexibility, and situational responsivity and conceptualized as the capacity to modulate one’s emotional arousal such that an optimal level of engagement with one’s environment is fostered (Cicchetti, Ganiban, & Barnett, 1991; Thompson, 1994).”
Compas and colleagues (e.g., Compas et al., 2001; Connor-Smith et al., 2000)	Coping	“conscious and volitional efforts to regulate emotion, cognition, behavior, physiology, and the environment in response to stressful events or circumstances” (Compas et al., 2001; p. 89)
Eisenberg and colleagues (e.g., Eisenberg et al., 1997, 2010)	Emotion Regulation	“processes used to manage and change if, when, and how (e.g., how intensely) one experiences emotions and emotion-related motivational and physiological states, as well as how emotions are expressed behaviorally” (p. 495).
Thompson, Gross and colleagues (e.g., Gross & Thompson, 2007, 2010; Thompson, 1991, 1994; Thompson & Calkins, 1996)	Emotion Regulation	“the extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and modifying emotional reactions, especially their intensive and temporal features, to accomplish one’s goals” (Thompson, 1994; p. 27–28)
Lazarus and colleagues (e.g., Folkman & Lazarus, 1985; Lazarus & Folkman, 1984; Lazarus & Launier, 1978)	Coping	“constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands that are appraised as taxing or exceeding the re-sources of the person” (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984; p. 141)