Contemporary interest in emotion regulation promises to advance important new views of emotional development as well offering applications developmental psychopathology, but these potential contributions are contingent on developmentalists' attention some basic definitional issues. This essay offers a perspective issues by considering how should be defined, the various components management emotion, strategies fit into dynamics social interaction, and individual differences conceptualized...

Media coverage of early brain development not only has focused public attention on childhood but also contributed to misunderstanding developmental neuroscience research. This article critically summarizes current research in that is pertinent the central claims media accounts development, including (a) scientific understanding formative experiences, (b) whether critical periods are typical for (c) as a lifelong process, (d) biological hazards growth, and (e) strengths limits technology...

The impact of early close relationships on psychological development is one the enduring questions developmental psychology that addressed by attachment theory and research. This essay evaluates what has been learned, offers ideas for future research, examining origins continuity change in security life, its prediction later behavior. discussion research changing family circumstances quality care changes security, new hypotheses study. Considering representations (or internal working models)...

Systems theory holds that emotional responses derive from the continuous, mutual interaction between multiple neurobiological and behavioral systems associated with emotion as they are contextually embedded. Developmental portrays these becoming progressively integrated mature. From this perspective, regulatory processes incorporated into throughout course of development. This article examines implications developmental in understanding association regulation, enlisting functionalist...

The separate literatures on parental discipline, maternal discourse about emotion, and autobiographical memory support the idea that parent–child in context of a supportive relationship plays role child's early conscience development, this study was designed to examine issue. Forty‐two preschool children their mothers took part 45‐min structured laboratory session, at homes, completed Attachment Q‐Set. As each mother asked discuss with her child one incident occurred within last week which...

Abstract The capacity to manage emotion is based on the growth of self-regulatory capacities in early years, but also affected by situational demands, influences from other people, and child's goals for regulating a particular setting. For most children growing up supportive contexts, emotional regulation associated with enhanced psychosocial well-being socioemotional competence. But who are at risk development psychopathology owing environmental stresses or intrinsic vulnerability (or their...

Using a sample of low-income mothers enrolled in Early Head Start (n = 65), this study tested the hypothesis that parenting stress is affected by social support and self-efficacy, addition to family risk status income. Specifically, it was proposed self-efficacy are psychological resources associated with lower levels, would moderate impact income on stress. A significant proportion variance explained risk, interaction income; alone not predictor levels. Mothers higher had levels stress,...

This study was designed to elucidate the association between attachment and emotional understanding in preschool children. Forty children ages of 2.5 6 years their mothers participated study. Mothers completed Attachment Q-set, took part at preschools both an affective perspective-taking task a series interviews concerning naturally occurring incidents emotions. Overall, age security predicted child's aggregate score on tasks. However, when separated by valence emotion, for only those...

Abstract The Strange Situation procedure was developed by Ainsworth two decades agoas a means of assessing the security infant-parent attachment. Users procedureclaim that it provides way determining whether infant has species-appropriate adaptive behavior as result rearing in an evolutionary appropriate context, characterized sensitively responsive parent. Only when parent behaves sensitive, fashion is baby said to behave or secure fashion. Furthermore, infants are observed repeatedly...

ABSTRACT— Developmental research on emotion regulation is increasingly advancing toward a systems view that integrates behavioral and biological constituents of emotional self‐control. However, this poses fundamental challenges to prevailing conceptualizations regulation. In portraying as network multilevel processes characterized by feedback interaction between higher lower systems, it becomes apparent component (rather than response to) activation, derives from the mutual influence...