We would like to ask you some questions about your emotional life, in particular, how you control (that is, regulate and manage) your emotions. The questions below involve two distinct aspects of your emotional life. One is your emotional experience, or what you feel like inside. The other is your emotional expression, or how you show your emotions in the way you talk, gesture, or behave. Although some of the following questions may seem similar to one another, they differ in important ways. For each item, please answer using the following scale:

Source: Gross, J. J., & John, O. P. (2003). Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes:Implications for affect, relationships, and  well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 348–362. https://spl.stanford.edu/resources

Note: Cognitive reappraisal is a form of cognitive change that involves construing a potentially emotion-eliciting situation in a way that  changes its emotional impact. For example, during an admissions interview, one might view the give-and-take as an opportunity to find out how much one likes the school rather than as a test of one’s worth. Items 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 10 make up the Cognitive Reappraisal facet.  Expressive suppression is a form of response modulation that involves inhibiting ongoing emotion-expressive behavior.  For example, one might keep a poker face while holding a great hand during a card game. Items 2, 4, 6, and 9 make up the Expressive  Suppression facet.

The scoring takes the average of all the scores (i.e., the score lies between 1 and 7). The table below shows the averages of 1,483  undergraduate students around 20 years of age.

Source: Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Retrieved from http://www.psytoolkit.org/survey-library/emotional-regulation-erq.html