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Tan, Lin; Shin, Eunkyung; Page, Kenyon; Smith, Cynthia L. – Child Development, 2023
The current study took a person-centered approach to examine the heterogeneity of changes in children's emotions and persistence during a goal-blocking task and examined how different profiles of emotions and persistence related to children's self-regulation. Children's anger, sadness, and persistence were rated in a goal-blocking task in…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Persistence, Attitude Change, Goal Orientation
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Albert, Dustin; Steinberg, Laurence – Child Development, 2011
The present study examined age differences in performance on the Tower of London, a measure of strategic planning, in a diverse sample of 890 individuals between the ages of 10 and 30. Although mature performance was attained by age 17 on relatively easy problems, performance on the hardest problems showed improvements into the early 20s.…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Self Control, Late Adolescents, Age Differences
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Eisenberg, Nancy; Spinrad, Tracy L. – Child Development, 2004
Cole, Martin, and Dennis (this issue) considered many important conceptual and methodological issues in their discussion of emotion regulation. Although it may be necessary to develop an integrated definition of the construct of emotion regulation, the definition provided in the Cole et al. article is too encompassing. It is important to…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Self Control, Emotional Development, Behavior Patterns