After completing the self-assessment, What is Your Emotional Personality, and reviewing the material discussed in the text, please recall a situation where you had to regulate your emotions. For example, think of times when you wanted to feel more serious than you would otherwise, or experience more happiness for someone at a time when events caused your emotions to be less positive.

1. Which of the five emotion regulation strategies did you apply?
2. Why were those strategies chosen?
3. Based upon the results from the self-assessment, how difficult was it to change your emotions?