Besides, the reaction phase of a self-regulated tutoring system is active in nature. According
to Lazarus (2001), the active strategies are active efforts that help people reinterpret,
regulate and produce effective strategies to improve their affective state. They are not aimed
at providing a solution or modifying the domain or environment, rather, they are active selforiented
strategies aimed at maintaining the individual’s psychological affective state). Thus,
we assert that active emotion-focused strategies are more suitable to be integrated in a selfregulated
tutoring system