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Porges, Stephen W.; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
This essay discusses the evaluation of the relationship between the nervous system and emotion regulation, introducing vagal tone as a measurable organismic variable that contributes to individual and developmental differences in the expression and regulation of emotion. (MDM)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Biological Influences, Brain Hemisphere Functions

Stansbury, Kathy; Gunnar, Megan R. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
This essay argues that the activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) system does not appear to be related to emotion regulation processes in children, although individual differences in emotion processes related to negative emotion temperaments appear to be associated with individual differences in HPA reactivity among normally…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Problems, Biological Influences, Child Behavior