Why do I feel the way I do? Emotional dysregulation and the need to understand the causes of emotions

Attribution theory seeks to explain why an individual experiences a given emotion in a certain situation. This process occurs intrapersonally, with individuals seeking to identify the factors that led them to experience a given emotional state, with difficulties in this process potentially constituting a component of emotional dysregulation. It was hypothesised that when individuals with poor emotion regulation experienced emotions within a...