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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)
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Colle, Livia; Del Giudice, Marco – Social Development, 2011
The study investigated the relationship between patterns of attachment and emotional competence at the beginning of middle childhood in a sample of 122 seven-year-olds. A new battery of tasks was developed in order to assess two facets of emotional competence (emotion recognition and knowledge of regulation strategies). Attachment was related to…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Attachment Behavior, Children, Gender Discrimination
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Raikes, H. Abigail; Robinson, JoAnn L.; Bradley, Robert H.; Raikes, Helen H.; Ayoub, Catherine C. – Social Development, 2007
The attainment of self-regulatory skills during the toddler years is an understudied issue, especially among low-income children. The present study used growth modeling to examine the change over time and the final status in children's abilities to self-regulate, in a sample of 2,441 low-income children aged 14 to 36 months. Positive growth in…
Descriptors: Mothers, Self Control, Low Income, Preschool Children