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Walle, Eric A.; Dahl, Audun – Developmental Psychology, 2020
The collection of articles presented by Pollak, Camras, and Cole (2019) provides a stimulating survey of the current state of research on emotional development. However, the special issue also makes apparent the need for defining the construct of interest. Definitions of emotions guide how researchers deal with fundamental theoretical and…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Definitions, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
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Martinez, Aleix M. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Computer vision algorithms have made tremendous advances in recent years. We now have algorithms that can detect and recognize objects, faces, and even facial actions in still images and video sequences. This is wonderful news for researchers that need to code facial articulations in large data sets of images and videos, because this task is time…
Descriptors: Automation, Coding, Nonverbal Communication, Children
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Holodynski, Manfred; Seeger, Dorothee – Developmental Psychology, 2019
For research on emotional development, defining emotions as psychological systems of appraisals, expressions, body reactions, and subjective feelings in all phases of ontogenesis raises tricky methodological issues. How can we measure single emotions when appraisals and feelings cannot be assessed from outside, when expressions do not seem to be…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Affective Behavior, Psychological Patterns, Neonates
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Helfinstein, Sarah M.; Fox, Nathan A.; Pine, Daniel S. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Behavioral inhibition is a temperament characterized in infancy and early childhood by a tendency to withdraw from novel or unfamiliar stimuli. Children exhibiting this disposition, relative to children with other dispositions, are more socially reticent, less likely to initiate interaction with peers, and more likely to develop anxiety over time.…
Descriptors: Fear, Inhibition, Cues, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Blanchard-Fields, Fredda; Coats, Abby Heckman – Developmental Psychology, 2008
The authors examined regulation of the discrete emotions anger and sadness in adolescents through older adults in the context of describing everyday problem situations. The results support previous work; in comparison to younger age groups, older adults reported that they experienced less anger and reported that they used more passive and fewer…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Age Differences, Emotional Development, Psychological Patterns
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Moss, Ellen; Cyr, Chantal; Dubois-Comtois, Karine – Developmental Psychology, 2004
Preschool to school-age trajectories of 242 children, including 37 with insecure-disorganized and 66 with insecure-organized attachment patterns, were examined. Child attachment and stressful life events (the latter retrospectively) were measured at ages 5-7, and mother-child interactive quality, parenting stress, marital satisfaction, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Marital Satisfaction, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior
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Zhou, Qing; Eisenberg, Nancy; Wang, Yun; Reiser, Mark – Developmental Psychology, 2004
Relations among authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles, children's effortful control and dispositional anger/frustration, and children's social functioning were examined for 425 first and second graders (7-10 years old) in Beijing, China. Parents reported on parenting styles; parents and teachers rated children's effortful control,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Grade 2, Grade 1
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Greene, Melissa L.; Way, Niobe; Pahl, Kerstin – Developmental Psychology, 2006
This article presents results from a 3-year longitudinal study of the growth patterns and correlates of perceived discrimination by adults and by peers among Black, Latino, and Asian American high school students. Results revealed a linear increase over time in levels of perceived discrimination by adults, whereas perceptions of discrimination by…
Descriptors: Puerto Ricans, Asian Americans, Adolescents, African Americans
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Jones, Diane Carlson – Developmental Psychology, 2004
This longitudinal study of adolescent girls and boys examined the contributions of social (peer appearance context), psychological (internalized appearance ideals and appearance social comparison), and biological (body mass) factors to the development of body dissatisfaction. Students (165 girls and 139 boys) completed questionnaires when they…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Body Composition, Self Concept, Gender Differences
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Eisenberg, Nancy; Sadovsky, Adrienne; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Fabes, Richard A.; Losoya, Sandra H.; Valiente, Carlos; Reiser, Mark; Cumberland, Amanda; Shepard, Stephanie A. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
The relations of children's internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors to their concurrent regulation, impulsivity (reactive undercontrol), anger, sadness, and fearfulness and these aspects of functioning 2 years prior were examined. Parents and teachers completed measures of children's (N = 185; ages 6 through 9 years) adjustment, negative…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Children, Conceptual Tempo, Self Control