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Tamir M, Perry B. Why Do People Regulate Their Emotions? A Taxonomy of Motives in Emotion Regulation. Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 2015;20(3):199-222doi: 10.1177/1088868315586325.
Tamir, M., & Perry, B. (2016). Why Do People Regulate Their Emotions? A Taxonomy of Motives in Emotion Regulation. Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc, 20(3), 199-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868315586325
Tamir, Maya, and Perry. "Why Do People Regulate Their Emotions? A Taxonomy of Motives in Emotion Regulation." Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc vol. 20,3 (2016): 199-222. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868315586325
Tamir M, Perry B. Why Do People Regulate Their Emotions? A Taxonomy of Motives in Emotion Regulation. Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 2016 Aug;20(3):199-222. doi: 10.1177/1088868315586325. Epub 2015 May 26. PMID: 26015392.
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Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 2016 Aug;20(3):199-222. doi: 10.1177/1088868315586325. Epub 2015 May 26.

Why Do People Regulate Their Emotions? A Taxonomy of Motives in Emotion Regulation.

Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc

Maya Tamir, Perry

Affiliations

  1. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel [email protected].

PMID: 26015392 DOI: 10.1177/1088868315586325

Abstract

Emotion regulation involves the pursuit of desired emotional states (i.e., emotion goals) in the service of superordinate motives. The nature and consequences of emotion regulation, therefore, are likely to depend on the motives it is intended to serve. Nonetheless, limited attention has been devoted to studying what motivates emotion regulation. By mapping the potential benefits of emotion to key human motives, this review identifies key classes of motives in emotion regulation. The proposed taxonomy distinguishes between hedonic motives that target the immediate phenomenology of emotions, and instrumental motives that target other potential benefits of emotions. Instrumental motives include behavioral, epistemic, social, and eudaimonic motives. The proposed taxonomy offers important implications for understanding the mechanism of emotion regulation, variation across individuals and contexts, and psychological function and dysfunction, and points to novel research directions.

© 2015 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Keywords: emotion; emotion regulation; goals; motivation; self-regulation

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