Considerable attention has been devoted to the concept of flexible emotion regulation, which de-emphasizes the importance of any specific regulatory strategy in favor of the flexible deployment of strategies in response to specific situational challenges. The bulk of research in this area has been conducted on adult samples. Research on emotion regulation flexibility (ERF) in youth has been documented in only a limited number of studies and using various definitions. This systematic review aims to gather and summarize different conceptualizations and methodological approaches of adolescent ERF. We incorporate these findings into a general framework to understand ERF and its role in adolescents’ emotional, behavioral and social functioning. Adhering to the PRISMA guidelines, 11 studies were included in the review. While ERF has been defined in various and inconsistent ways, the included studies utilized conceptualizations from two overarching domains: the regulation of expressed emotion and the repertoire of emotion regulation strategies. Promising approaches and future directions will be highlighted.

人们对灵活情绪调节的概念给予了相当大的关注，它淡化了任何特定调节策略的重要性，而有利于灵活部署策略以应对特定的情境挑战。该领域的大部分研究都是对成人样本进行的。关于青少年情绪调节灵活性 （ERF） 的研究仅在有限数量的研究中被记录下来，并使用了各种定义。本系统综述旨在收集和总结青少年 ERF 的不同概念化和方法学方法。我们将这些发现纳入一个总体框架，以了解 ERF 及其在青少年情绪、行为和社会功能中的作用。根据 PRISMA 指南，本综述纳入了 11 项研究。虽然 ERF 的定义方式多种多样且不一致，但纳入的研究利用了两个总体领域的概念化：表达情绪的调节和情绪调节策略的库。将重点介绍有前途的方法和未来的方向。