Is there another word for 'affective control'?
There is a huge body of literature on emotion regulation.  The main person to look up is James Gross.  He's recently published a second edition of the Handbook of Emotion Regulation if you'd like a comprehensive review of the field.  He also just published a target article in Psychological Inquiry about the present status of emotion regulation research and theory (a good starting place, in my opinion).  His name will be on the majority of papers published in this area (he collaborates with a lot of people).