Self-Regulation & Emotional Intelligence Flashcards
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Which physiological strategy is most commonly taught in anger management to rapidly activate the parasympathetic nervous system and support self-regulation?
Answer: Diaphragmatic slow breathing
Slow diaphragmatic breathing stimulates the vagus nerve, activating the parasympathetic nervous system and reducing physiological anger arousal.
The 'emotion thermometer' tool is used in self-regulation training primarily to:
Answer: Help clients monitor and scale the intensity of their anger in real time
The emotion thermometer gives clients a concrete scale (e.g., 0–10) to track anger intensity, enabling earlier intervention before it escalates.
A client who consistently misreads neutral facial expressions as angry is exhibiting a deficit in which emotional intelligence domain?
Answer: Empathy / social awareness
Accurately reading others' emotions is a function of empathy and social awareness, an EI domain often impaired in high-anger individuals.
Which of the following is an example of a cognitive self-regulation strategy for anger?
Answer: Reappraising the triggering event with a more balanced perspective
Cognitive reappraisal involves reinterpreting the meaning of a provoking event, which directly reduces the emotional intensity of anger.
The 'ABC model' used in anger-focused EI training refers to:
Answer: Activating event, Beliefs, Consequences
In REBT-based EI training, the ABC model identifies how an Activating event + Beliefs determine emotional and behavioral Consequences.
Research on emotional intelligence and anger regulation suggests that individuals with higher EI tend to:
Answer: Recover from anger arousal more quickly
Higher EI is associated with faster emotional recovery (resilience), not necessarily lower anger frequency, but better management when anger does occur.
When teaching self-regulation, a CSAM specialist would MOST likely introduce 'urge surfing' to address:
Answer: The impulse to act aggressively during peak anger arousal
Urge surfing teaches clients to observe the impulse toward aggressive action as a wave that rises and falls without acting on it, a key self-regulation skill.