How exactly would one go about changing self-regulatory ability by improving reappraisal techniques?
Could interpreting events more optimistically decrease the perceived challenge, and allow work to start more easily? Or would it help by making work itself seem better?
Besides that, I don't see how reappraisal would work to increase self-regulatory ability, other than a general improvement of emotional state.
If I seem to fall on the pessimistic side of each aspect of the explanatory theory, is it worthwhile to attempt to improve reappraisal?