Abstract

Recently researchers on job related stress tended to regard experiences owing to stress as emotional exhaustion. On this regard, coping skills to regulate emotional arousal can provide answers for how to deal with stress. This paper once reviewed different viewpoints of emotion theorists on emotional regulation and discussed how their respective advocates could be applied to resolve stress-related maladjustment problems. Ahead of introducing specific management techniques of emotional stress, cognitive and peripheral theories of emotion were contrasted. Then issues were made on how both theoretical orientations developed respectively different techniques to regulate emotional overwhelming. Besides, neurological findings were introduced on how voluntary control might be possible over involuntary nervous exhaustion. Furthermore, it was discussed what new theoretical findings about emotional structure would Imply to emotional regulation.