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Direct linkHernández, Maciel M.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Valiente, Carlos; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Berger, Rebecca H.; VanSchyndel, Sarah K.; Thompson, Marilyn S.; Southworth, Jody; Silva, Kassondra M. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Positive emotional expressivity has been associated with increased social competence and decreased maladjustment in childhood. However, a few researchers have found null or even positive associations between positive emotional expressivity and maladjustment, which suggests that there may be nuanced associations of positive expressivity, perhaps as…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Emotional Adjustment, Student Adjustment, Behavior Problems
Peer reviewedMurphy, Bridget C.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Fabes, Richard A.; Shepard, Stephanie; Guthrie, Ivanna K. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1999
Examined change and consistency in emotionality among children, ages 4 to 12, every 2 years for 8 years. Data revealed that: early individual differences in emotionality and emotion regulation predict similar functioning years later; and that children become more emotionally regulated and less emotionally intense with age. (LBT)
Descriptors: Children, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Development, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedEisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Teachers' ratings of children's constructive coping and attentional control were positively related to boys' social skills and peer status. Children's emotional intensity and their coping behavior that involved acting out were negatively related to girls' and boys' social skills and boys' peer status. Mothers' reports of boys' low emotional…
Descriptors: Coping, Emotional Adjustment, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Relationship
Peer reviewedMaszk, Patricia; Eisenberg, Nancy; Guthrie, Ivanna K. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1999
Study examined relation of children's negative emotionality and regulation to current and subsequent sociometric status throughout the year. Measures of emotional intensity, regulation and aggression completed by teachers for 74 four- to six-year olds at two points during the year, indicated individual differences in regulation, and emotionality…
Descriptors: Aggression, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Development, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedEisenberg, Nancy; Valiente, Carlos; Morris, Amanda Sheffield; Fabes, Richard A.P; Cumberland, Amanda; Reiser, Mark; Gershoff, elizabeth Thpmpson; Shepard, Stephanie A.; Losoya, Sandra – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Examined the role of regulation in mediating the relations between maternal emotional expressivity and children's adjustment and social competence when children were 4.5 to just 8 years old, and again 2 years later. Found that at Times 1 and 2, regulation mediated the relation between positive maternal emotional expressivity and children's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Experience
Peer reviewedMurphy, Bridget C.; Eisenberg, Nancy – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1996
Examined angry conflict incidents in a sample of 108 children ages 7 to 11, focusing on relations of anger-related internal and behavioral reactions to children's social functioning. Found that individual differences in children's social functioning were related to boys' anger-related goals and children's anger-related strategies. (MDM)
Descriptors: Anger, Children, Conflict Resolution, Emotional Adjustment
Peer reviewedEisenberg, Nancy; Gershoff, Elizabeth Thompson; Fabes, Richard A.; Shepard, Stephanie A.; Cumberland, Amanda J.; Losoya, Sandra H.; Guthrie, Ivanna K.; Murphy, Bridget C. – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Examined relations between mothers' expressed positive and negative emotion and 55- to 79-month-olds' regulation, social competence, and adjustment. Structural equation modeling revealed unique effects of positive and negative maternal expressed emotion on children's regulation, and the relations of maternal expressed emotion to children's…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Experience, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedJones, Sarah; Eisenberg, Nancy; Fabes, Richard A.; MacKinnon, David P. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2002
Examined relations of parents' reactions to first- through fourth-graders' negative emotions with children's social and emotional competence at school and the moderating role of children's dispositional emotionality. Found that problem-focused parental reactions related positively to socioemotional competence for boys but negatively for girls.…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary School Students, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Experience
Peer reviewedEisenberg, Nancy; Cumberland, Amanda; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Fabes, Richard A.; Shepard, Stephanie A.; Reiser, Mark; Murphy, Bridget C.; LoSaga, Sandra H.; Guthrie, Ivanna K. – Child Development, 2001
Examined relation of different types of negative emotion and regulation and control to 55- to 97-month-olds' internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. Found that children with externalizing problems, compared to children with internalizing problems and nondisordered children, were more prone to anger, impulsivity, and low regulation.…
Descriptors: Anger, Anxiety, Attention Control, Behavior Problems
