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Children's Emotional Reactivity to Emotionally Evocative Stimuli: Associations with Internalizing Symptoms
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Gabel, Lindsay N.; Daoust, Andrew R.; Olino, Thomas M.; Grahn, Jessica A.; Durbin, C. Emily; Hayden, Elizabeth P. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Individual differences in emotional reactivity emerge early in development and predict important child outcomes. Unfortunately, methods used to assess these often fail to tap dynamic changes in emotion, obscuring nuanced relationships between maladaptive emotional reactivity and early internalizing psychopathology. We therefore explored the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Depression (Psychology)
The Role of Negative Emotionality in the Development of Child Executive Function and Language Abilities from Toddlerhood to First Grade: An Adoption Study
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Cioffi, Camille C.; Griffin, Amanda M.; Natsuaki, Misaki N.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Reiss, David; Ganiban, Jody M.; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Leve, Leslie D. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Understanding the role of negative emotionality in the development of executive functioning (EF) and language skills can help identify developmental windows that may provide promising opportunities for intervention. In addition, because EF and language skills are, in part, genetically influenced, intergenerational transmission patterns are…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Development, Executive Function, Language Skills
Context-Inappropriate Anger, Emotion Knowledge Deficits, and Negative Social Experiences in Preschool
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Locke, Robin L.; Miller, Alison L.; Seifer, Ronald; Heinze, Justin E. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study examined contextually inappropriate (CI) anger in relation to emotion recognition and situation knowledge, negative social experiences, and externalizing behavior among low-income 4-year-olds attending Head Start (n = 134). Approximately 23% showed anger when presented with positive/neutral slides and videos (valence-incongruent CI…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Peer Relationship
Peer Victimization as a Mediator of the Relation between Facial Attractiveness and Internalizing Problems
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Rosen, Lisa H.; Underwood, Marion K.; Beron, Kurt J. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011
This study examined the relations among facial attractiveness, peer victimization, and internalizing problems in early adolescence. We hypothesized that experiences of peer victimization would partially mediate the relationship between attractiveness and internalizing problems. Ratings of attractiveness were obtained from standardized photographs…
Descriptors: Intervention, Structural Equation Models, Early Adolescents, Grade 6