Emotion Regulation Related to Children's Future Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors

Abstract

This study provides empirical evidence that an interview with children as young as 5.5 years can provide researchers with a reliable and valid measure of emotion regulation.

Early Behavioral Inhibition and Emotion Regulation: Pathways Toward Social Competence in Middle Childhood

“…These findings are consistent with the literature showing that ER abilities in childhood and adulthood are associated with various socioemotional outcomes (Rivers, Brackett, Katulak, & Salovey, ). For example, poor anger regulation predicts increased externalizing symptoms (e.g., Degnan et al., ), as well as child‐reported depressive symptoms (Bowie, ), and parent‐reported sadness regulation concurrently predicts higher levels of parent‐reported social withdrawal among 4‐ to 8‐year‐old children (Eisenberg et al., ). The current study extended these findings to show that engaged regulation strategies in a socially unfamiliar and ambiguous context (i.e., the disappointment task) directly related to social competence, a particularly relevant outcome for behaviorally inhibited children.…”

Examining the Presence of Anxiety in Aggressive Individuals: The Illuminating Role of Fight-or-Flight Mechanisms

“…Reactive aggression has been linked to higher reactivity (e.g., Hubbard et al 2002) while proactive aggression has not (e.g., Fite et al 2010;Xu and Zhang 2008). Taken together, these studies suggest that arousal of different emotions linked to the fight/flight system (anger and fear) leads to different problematic behavior (Bowie 2010). Of course, emotional responding is only half of the fight/flight system.…”

Autonomic Regulation on the Stroop Predicts Reading Achievement in School Age Children

“…Measures were taken at Time 1 ( T 1) when the children were between the ages of 7 and 9, 18 months later at Time 2 ( T 2), and 30 months after baseline at Time 3 ( T 3). Data collection occurred in an off campus laboratory setting and within family homes (see Bowie, 2010; Doohan, Carrère, Siler, & Beardslee, 2009 for more complete descriptions). Written consent was obtained from parents and oral assent from children.…”