The ability to regulate emotions is a central element of mental health that is significantly affected in various psychiatric disorders. Its importance for development and maintenance of depressive symptomatology has been widely shown; e.g. patients with depression have a significantly reduced ability to regulate emotions in response to negative stimuli. However, emotion regulation abilities may pose as an important resilience factor that can counteract the development of depressive symptoms. The loss of the ability to regulate emotions is not only observed in depression, but is also a core factor in negative symptoms of schizophrenia.