“…In fact, Portuguese psychologists anticipated that inhibited young children can experience similar emotion-regulation difficulties to those that have been described in prior research, that is, low thresholds for the evocation of negative affect (especially, social fear and anxiety) during the exposure to social novelty (Kagan et al 1987;Rubin et al, 1995;Rubin et al, 2001). Consistent with prior research conducted with Portuguese samples (Coelho, Guedes, Rodrigues, Santos, & Veríssimo, 2018), our participants also referred that inhibited young children can also display lower levels of emotional knowledge than their non-inhibited peers, especially increased difficulties in expressing and interpreting emotions. This may be due to the fact that the ability to manage negative emotions without becoming extremely upset when exposed to challenging social situations and the ability to identify emotions and recognize their causes typically enable children to engage more easily in play behaviors or social interactions with peers and, ultimately, increase their social standing in the peer group (Sette, Baumgartner, Laghi, & Coplan, 2016;Smith et al, 2019).…”