 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(4), 883-897. doi:10.1037/a0014755 Response-focused strategies are generally not as successful as antecedent-focused regulation strategies, which refers to "things we do, either consciously or automatically, before emotion-response tendencies have become fully activated" (Srivastava et al. , 2009, 883). Srivastava et al. (2009) performed a study in  which the effectiveness of students' use of expressive suppression was analyzed in the transition period between high school and college.
<clarity>  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(4), 883-897. doi:10.1037/a0014755 Response-focused strategies are generally not as successful as antecedent-focused regulation strategies, which refers to "things we do, either consciously or automatically, before emotion-response tendencies have become fully activated" (Srivastava et al. , 2009, 883). Srivastava et al. (2009) performed a study in  which the effectiveness of students' use of expressive suppression was analyzed in the transition period between high school and college.
 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(4), 883-897. doi:10.1037/a0014755 Response-focused strategies are generally not as successful as antecedent-focused regulation strategies, which refers to "things we do, either consciously or automatically, before emotion-response tendencies have become fully activated" . Srivastava and colleagues performed a study in which the effectiveness of students' use of expressive suppression was analyzed in the transition period between high school and college.