STANDARDIZATION OF EMOTION REGULATION SCALE

Education that is imparted today focus on the cognitive aspect and little importance to the affective domain. Emotion regulation is the ability to modify the experience and expressions of emotions (Gross & Thompson 2007).In a classroom situation positive emotions, feedback and rewards facilitate better learning. Jurist proposed an innovative theoretical aspects on emotion regulation, which put forward theory of mind or mentalisation as a central idea of it. Regulatory process of emotion takes an account in mentalisation .This theory focus on affectively regulating or modulating an emotion relies on Theory of Mind. There are three aspects of mentalized affectivity, Identifting, Processing and Expressing. This paper discussed validity, reliability and item analysis of Emotion regulation scale in the light of Mentalized affectivity Theory. Emotion regulation plays a major role in adolescent ability to handle every day stressors and the way in which they response to these stressors can result in the development of depression, anxiety or anger management problems.