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A Limited Repertoire of Emotion Regulation Strategies Is Associated with Internalizing Problems in Adolescence
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Lougheed, Jessica P.; Hollenstein, Tom – Social Development, 2012
The present study was designed to test whether the beneficial effects of emotion regulation (ER) have less to do with the use of singular, "adaptive" strategies and more to do with using a range of strategies. Using a community sample of adolescents (N = 177, M = 13.6 years), groups based on five measures of ER (reappraisal, suppression,…
Descriptors: Profiles, Adolescents, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
Cumulative Risk, Negative Emotionality, and Emotion Regulation as Predictors of Social Competence in Transition to School: A Mediated Moderation Model
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Chang, Hyein; Shelleby, Elizabeth C.; Cheong, JeeWon; Shaw, Daniel S. – Social Development, 2012
The goals of this study were to examine the additive and interactive effects of cumulative risk and child negative emotionality on children's social competence in the transition from preschool to school and to test whether these associations were mediated by child emotion regulation within a sample of 310 low-income, ethnically diverse boys.…
Descriptors: Risk, Behavior Problems, Interpersonal Competence, Self Control
Contingencies in Mother-Child Teaching Interactions and Behavioral Regulation and Dysregulation in Early Childhood
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Lunkenheimer, Erika S.; Kemp, Christine J.; Albrecht, Erin C. – Social Development, 2013
Predictable patterns in early parent-child interactions may help lay the foundation for how children learn to self-regulate. The present study examined contingencies between maternal teaching and directives and child compliance in mother-child problem-solving interactions at age 3.5 and whether they predicted children's behavioral regulation and…
Descriptors: Self Control, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Compliance (Psychology)
The Interaction between Negative Emotionality and Effortful Control in Early Social-Emotional Development
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Moran, Lyndsey R.; Lengua, Liliana J.; Zalewski, Maureen – Social Development, 2013
Interactions between reactive and regulatory dimensions of temperament may be particularly relevant to children's adjustment but are examined infrequently. This study investigated these interactions by examining effortful control as a moderator of the relations of fear and frustration reactivity to children's social competence, internalizing, and…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Child Development, Young Children
Caregiver Emotional Expressiveness, Child Emotion Regulation, and Child Behavior Problems among Head Start Families
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McCoy, Dana Charles; Raver, C. Cybele – Social Development, 2011
The present study examined the relationships between caregivers' self-reported positive and negative emotional expressiveness, observer assessments of children's emotion regulation, and teachers' reports of children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors in a sample of 97 primarily African American and Hispanic Head Start families. Results…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disadvantaged Youth, Caregivers, Preschool Children
Parental Reactions to Toddlers' Negative Emotions and Child Negative Emotionality as Correlates of Problem Behavior at the Age of Three
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Engle, Jennifer M.; McElwain, Nancy L. – Social Development, 2011
Parent-reported reactions to children's negative emotions and child negative emotionality were investigated as correlates of internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Children (N = 107) and their parents participated in a short-term longitudinal study of social development. Mothers and fathers independently completed questionnaires assessing…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Questionnaires, Parent Child Relationship
Methods of, and Reasons for, Emotional Expression and Control in Children with Internalizing, Externalizing, and Somatic Problems in Urban India
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Raval, Vaishali V.; Martini, Tanya S.; Raval, Pratiksha H. – Social Development, 2010
Although cross-cultural research concerning children's emotions is growing, few studies have examined emotion dysregulation in culturally diverse populations. This study compared 6- to 8-year-old children's reported methods of expressing and controlling anger, sadness, and physical pain, and their justifications for doing so across four groups in…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Cues, Pain, Foreign Countries