Understanding the Role of Emotional Regulation on Coping Mechanisms of Grief

Abstract

Grief is a psychological response to unforeseen or predicted unpleasant events of life. It is often elicited by individuals who have lost close relationships with other individuals, animals, or objects with which they had created an attachment pattern. Extreme guilt can also be a factor causing grief, as unfamiliar people and events are also capable of bringing out the same feeling of thought. Coping with grief patterns by implementing various emotional regulatory methods is commonly carried out. Emotional regulation is the process of altering the intensity of emotions felt across distinctive scenarios. Ways of handling emotional responses during a grief phase might influence coping mechanisms and overcoming capacities. This scholarly research aims to quantitatively study whether there will be a positively or negatively correlated relationship between Emotional Regulation and Psychological Responses among the student population. It also studies the nature of the effect that emotional regulation has on grief with regression analysis. A sample size of 300 will be selected using a convenience sampling method under a university setting after obtaining ethical consent from authorities and participants. The obtained results were analysed and interpreted in order to synchronize with the hypotheses formulated by eradicating any forms of manipulation. The results can be utilized to prove the necessity of healthy self-regulation practices that play a vital role in mitigating grief states. Therapeutic methods or multi-faceted approaches to introspection can also be developed in regard to the same area of concern.