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Consistency and Change in Children's Emotionality and Regulation: A Longitudinal Study.
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Murphy, 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
Mothers' Emotional Expressivity and Children' Behavior Problems and Social Competence: Mediation through Children's Regulation.
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Eisenberg, 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
Parents' Reactions to Elementary School Children's Negative Emotions: Relations to Social and Emotional Functioning at School.
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Jones, 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
The Relations of Regulation and Emotionality to Children's Externalizing and Internalizing Problem Behavior.
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Eisenberg, 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
Roles of Temperamental Arousal and Gender-Segregated Play in Young Children's Social Adjustment.
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Fabes, Richard A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Studied relationship of temperament and same-sex peer interaction with gender differences in adjustment. Found that highly arousable boys who played with same-sex peers had increased problem behaviors. Arousable girls who played with other girls were relatively unlikely to show problem behaviors. The arousability and same-sex peer interaction…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Behavior Problems, Child Development, Children