Table 4.

Summary of the participants' intrinsic emotion regulation approaches and strategies.

Approaches	Strategies	#Cases (n)	#Data extracts (n)	Regulating direction
Antecedent-focused emotion regulation	Situation selection	4	5	Affective-improving
	Situation modulation	10	13
	Attention deployment	6	10
	Cognitive change	14	34	Both affective-improving and affective-worsening (counterhedonic)
	Seeking extrinsic emotion regulation	3	4	Affective-improving
Response-focused emotional regulation	Suppression	8	13	Affective-improving
	Relaxation techniques	4	6