Different meditative practices surely have different goals, but to my experience the big advantage is making clearer to myself the actual content of the emotion

Different meditative practices surely have different goals, but to my experience the big advantage is making clearer to myself the actual content of the emotional state I'm in. And thus making better decisions about "handling" that state. In other words, (for me) meditation does not directly solve the problem: it just lets me see and consider the problem more clearly.