Emotional flexibility
Emotional flexibility is about holding everything at once — happiness, joy, and enthusiasm at the same time as anger, sadness, and frustration — and being able to feel differently at various points throughout the same day and perhaps even the same hour.
Emotional flexibility refers to a person's ability to manage their emotions in accordance with the experienced situation. In addition, emotional flexibility refers to the flexible use of different emotion regulation strategies. EF may also affect how an individual copes with pain and as such, may function as a candidate mechanism in explaining individual differences in pain tolerance and recovery.
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