Identifying Emotional Triggers
This worksheet helps 6th-grade students understand and identify their emotional triggers to better manage their social-emotional well-being.
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Identifying Emotional Triggers
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you understand what causes strong emotions and how to manage them.
What are Emotional Triggers?
Emotional triggers are things (words, actions, situations, memories) that cause a strong emotional reaction in us. Recognizing your triggers is the first step to managing your emotions effectively.
1. Emotional are things that cause a strong emotional reaction.
2. Recognizing your triggers is the first step to your emotions.
3. A trigger can be a word, an action, a , or a memory.
4. Which of the following is an example of an emotional trigger?
A sunny day
Someone making fun of you
Eating your favorite snack
Reading a good book
5. Why is it important to identify your emotional triggers?
So you can avoid all strong emotions
To understand and manage your reactions better
To make sure no one ever upsets you
It is not important
6. Describe a situation that might be an emotional trigger for someone your age. Then, explain what emotion it might cause.
7. All emotional triggers are negative and cause bad feelings.
True
False
8. Once you identify a trigger, you can begin to learn strategies to respond differently.
True
False
Think about your own experiences. What are some of your emotional triggers? How do they make you feel?
My Trigger:
How it makes me feel:
My Trigger:
How it makes me feel:
9. Looking at the image above, identify two emotions you see and describe a trigger that might cause each of those emotions.