Emotion is at the core of internal and interpersonal processes that create our subjective

experience of the self. The organization of the self is dependent upon the manner in which 

emotion is regulated. 

Research on emotion regulation reveals that emotion as a set of processes is both regulated 

and regulatory. That is, emotional processes cannot exist without influencing other such 

processes and being influenced themselves by other such processes. Thus the study of 

emotion and that of emotional regulation go hand in hand.