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Physiological Measures of Emotion from a Developmental Perspective: State of the Science
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Dennis, Tracy A.; Buss, Kristin A.; Hastings, Paul D.; Bell, Martha Ann; Diaz, Anjolii; Adam, Emma K.; Miskovic, Vladimir; Schmidt, Louis A.; Feldman, Ruth; Katz, Lynn Fainsilber; Rigterink, Tami; Strang, Nicole M.; Hanson, Jamie L.; Pollak, Seth D.; Dahl, Ronald E.; Silk, Jennifer S.; Siegle, Greg J.; Beauchaine, Theodore P.; Cicchetti, Dante; Rogosch, Fred A.; Fox, Nathan A.; Kirwan, Michael; Reeb-Sutherland, Bethany; Gunnar, Megan R.; Obradovic, Jelena; Boyce, W. Thomas; Molenaar, Peter C. M.; Gates, Kathleen M. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2012
In the past decade, there has been a dramatic growth in research examining the development of emotion from a physiological perspective. However, this widespread use of physiological measures to study emotional development coexists with relatively few guiding principles, thus reducing opportunities to move the field forward in innovative ways. The…
Descriptors: Physiology, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Development, Measurement
Temperamental Contributions to Children's Performance in an Emotion-Word Processing Task: A Behavioral and Electrophysiological Study
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Perez-Edgar, Koraly; Fox, Nathan A. – Brain and Cognition, 2007
Seven-year-old children (N=65) participating in a study of the influence of infant temperament on socioemotional development performed an auditory selective attention task involving words that varied in both affective (positive vs. negative) and social (social vs. nonsocial) content. Parent report of contemporaneous child temperament was also…
Descriptors: Personality, Attention, Attention Control, Children
Developmental Changes in Children's Reactions to Anger in the Home.
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Cummings, E.M.; And Others – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1984
Examines developmental trends in children's reactions to anger and affection occurring among others in the home. Children were studied for nine months when toddlers and for three months when between six and seven years of age. Data were provided by mothers trained in detailed reporting of discrete sequences of behavior. (RH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Emotional Development, Family Problems, Personality
Infant Positive and Negative Emotionality: One Dimension or Two?
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Belsky, Jay; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
To determine whether 1 or 2 dimensions of infant emotionality best characterized infant functioning, parental reports (10 months) and elicited emotion (12-13 months) were examined. Found that early positivity (12-13 months) predicted later positivity (18-20 months) better than later negativity, with the reverse being true of early negativity.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Development, Emotional Development, Emotional Response
Progress, Paradigms, and Unresolved Problems: A Commentary on Recent Advances in Our Understanding of Children's Emotions.
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Parke, Ross D. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1994
Highlights the contributions made by the papers in this special issue, and discusses remaining research problems and future research directions in the field of children's emotions and social competence. Notes that one of the most important points raised in this series of papers is the critical role of socialization in the development of emotions.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Emotional Development, Emotional Response
Individual Differences in Emotionality in Infancy.
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Kochanska, Grazyna; Coy, Katherine C.; Tjebkes, Terri L.; Husarek, Susan J. – Child Development, 1998
Examined 8- to 10-month-olds' responses to standard procedures eliciting joy, fear, anger, and discomfort. Found that response parameters to standard procedures cohered strongly within each episode. Responses cohered across same-emotion episodes, except for anger. Responses and father-reported temperament related to infant's emotional tone in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anger, Emotional Development, Emotional Response
The Relations of Regulation and Emotionality to Resiliency and Competent Social Functioning in Elementary School Children.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Examined relations of children's regulation and emotionality to their social functioning. Found that resiliency mediated effects of individual differences in attentional regulation on social status and socially appropriate behavior, and that negative emotionality moderated the positive relation between attentional control and resiliency. Also…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention Control, Children, Emotional Development
The Affective Response of Down's Syndrome Infants to a Repeated Event.
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Gunn, P.; And Others – Child Development, 1981
Older Down's syndrome infants responded to the regular reappearance of a squeaky doll with significantly more affective behavior than did younger Down's syndrome infants. Longitudinal research with the younger infants indicated that the onset of affective behavior significantly correlated with mental development and aspects of temperament.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Downs Syndrome
The Emotional Life of the Toddler.
Lieberman, Alicia F. – 1993
Noting that parenting a toddler can be both exhilarating and frustrating, this book draws on lifelong research into children's emotional development to provide parents with a better understanding of toddlers' emotional range and how it affects toddler behavior. The 10 chapters and the conclusion cover the following areas: (1) the emotional…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Childhood Needs
Interaffectivity, Attachment, and Perinatal Vulnerability: Complexities of Motherhood in the Nineties.
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Weissmann, Lenore; Kromelow, Susan; Harding, Carol Gibb; Mroz, Cheryl; Lynn, Laura; Noll, Lisa – 1999
This study explored the role of perinatal vulnerability (PV) in mothers and infants in relationship to the development of interaffectivity and attachment, and the relationship between interaffectivity and attachment. Participating were a low-risk sample of 74 middle-class mother/first-born infant dyads who had participated as volunteers in a…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, At Risk Persons, Attachment Behavior, Depression (Psychology)
Continuity and Discontinuity in Infant Negative and Positive Emotionality: Family Antecedents and Attachment Consequences.
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Belsky, Jay; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Infants who changed in levels of emotionality between three and nine months were compared with infants who remained stable. Maternal personality, marital factors, and mother-infant interaction accounted for the change in highly emotional infants. Father factors accounted for changes by infants who were initially low in negativity. (BC)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Emotional Development, Family Environment
Child Temperament Effects on Special Education: Process and Outcomes.
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Martin, Roy P. – Exceptionality: A Research Journal, 1992
This paper reviews research relating child temperament (social, emotional, and attentional characteristics) to educational process and outcome for exceptional children with different diagnoses. The paper presents a model of temperament effects on educational outcome, mediated by effects on parents, peers, and teachers and by the child's academic…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Children's Temperaments and Their Relation to Behaviour and Emotion across Different Contexts.
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Kean, June – 1999
This observational study investigated children's temperaments and their relation to behavior and emotion across different contexts. Temperament, or individual behavioral style, was conceptualized as the manifestation of affect displays and social behaviors in context, with emotions acting as signals for interactions. Ratings of child temperament…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect
Predicting Adolescent Peer Problems and Antisocial Activities: The Relative Roles of Aggression and Dysregulation.
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Pope, Alice W.; Bierman, Karen L. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Examined relative roles of aggression and other dysregulated behaviors in predicting adolescent peer problems and antisocial behavior. Found that aggression and withdrawal were stable and linked to peer difficulties in elementary school and adolescence, but indicated significant risk for adolescent rejection, victimization, and antisocial activity…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior
Reflections on "Child Temperament Effects on Special Education Process and Outcomes."
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Martin, Roy P. – Exceptionality: A Research Journal, 1992
These comments on EC 604 103, concerning child temperament effects on the special education process and outcomes, focus on how the author became interested in the topic, reasons for the paucity of research in this area, the relationship between child temperament and parental temperament, and ways in which teachers can apply the research. (JDD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
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