The first potential candidate of the emotion-focused strategy is “I pray/ supplication”
strategy. It is the most commonly used by the respondents (both male and female students) of
the study. Thus, it should naturally be a good candidate for the emotion-focused strategies.
The second candidate is “I try to keep my feelings from interfering with other things too
much” strategy. Though, it is an active strategy, the strategy is very difficult to be implemented
in the self-regulated affective framework. Perhaps, the strategy is more relevant to a collaborative
learning environment, which is, beyond the scope of SRT framework. Therefore,
we assert that the “I try to keep my feelings from interfering with other things too much”
strategy is not a good candidate for the SRT framework