Various current directions in the study of emotions place increased emphasis on the significance and role of emotions in social functioning and personality development. This chapter provides state‐of‐the‐art coverage of widely ranging research directions pertaining to advances in understanding of the role of emotions in children's development. The chapter begins by considering the role of emotion in children's individual development, including emotional expression and emotional understanding, emotional regulation and children's coping with stressful situations, and relations between emotional functioning and temperament, psychobiological functioning, and the development of personality. Next, relational influences on emotional and personality development are examined, including the influences of parent‐child relationships, marital relationships, and familial and cultural influences. The chapter closes by considering normal and abnormal emotional and personality development from a developmental psychopathology perspective. This work is seen as calling special attention to the promise for future conceptual and clinical advances of investigating emotional and personality development from a process‐oriented perspective.
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