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Emotion regulation from early adolescence to emerging adulthood and middle adulthood: Age differences, gender differences, and emotion-specific developmental variations
Despite the growing research on emotion regulation, the empirical evidence for normative age-related emotion regulation patterns is rather divergent. From a life-span perspective, normative age changes in emotion regulation may be more salient applying the same methodological approach on a broad age range examining both growth and decline during development. In addition, emotion-specific developmental patterns might show differential developmental trends. The present study examined age differences in seven emotion regulation strategies from early adolescence (age 11) to middle adulthood (age 50) for the three emotions of s...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 18, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Zimmermann, P., Iwanski, A. Tags: Special section: Emotion regulation across the life span Source Type: research

Children's perceptions of the effectiveness of strategies for regulating anger and sadness
This study was designed to extend understanding of children’s judgment of the efficacy of alternative emotion regulation strategies. Children aged six and nine (N = 97) were presented with illustrated storyboards of anger- and sadness-evoking situations and rated the effectiveness of eight emotion regulation strategies. Children endorsed some strategies on an emotion-specific basis: they rated problem-solving as more effective for anger, and seeking adult support and venting emotion as more effective for sadness. Younger children rated cognitively sophisticated emotion regulatory strategies comparably to older childr...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 18, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Waters, S. F., Thompson, R. A. Tags: Special section: Emotion regulation across the life span Source Type: research

Parent emotion representations and the socialization of emotion regulation in the family
This study examined multiple aspects of parents’ self-reported emotion representations and their associations with parents’ strategies for managing children’s negative emotions and children’s emotion self-regulatory behaviors. The sample consisted of 73 mothers of 4–5-year-old children; the sample was ethnically diverse. Two aspects of parents’ beliefs about emotion – the importance of attention to/acceptance of emotional reactions, and the value of emotion self-regulation – were associated with both socialization strategies and children’s self-regulation. Furthermore, ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 18, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Meyer, S., Raikes, H. A., Virmani, E. A., Waters, S., Thompson, R. A. Tags: Special section: Emotion regulation across the life span Source Type: research

Will they like me? Adolescents' emotional responses to peer evaluation
We examined whether adolescents’ age and gender impacted their emotional responses to being accepted or rejected by peers of different age groups (i.e., early or middle adolescence) and genders. We also tested whether expectations about peers’ interest was associated with variability in adolescents’ emotional responses to the evaluative outcome. Upon being accepted by middle adolescent male peers, females in the middle relative to early years of adolescence reported greater well-being, whereas males reported similar levels of well-being regardless of their own age. Following acceptance from middle adolesc...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 18, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Guyer, A. E., Caouette, J. D., Lee, C. C., Ruiz, S. K. Tags: Special section: Emotion regulation across the life span Source Type: research

Emotional and adrenocortical regulation in early adolescence: Prediction by attachment security and disorganization in infancy
The aim of the present study was to examine differences in emotion expression and emotion regulation in emotion-eliciting situations in early adolescence from a bio-psycho-social perspective, specifically investigating the influence of early mother-infant attachment and attachment disorganization on behavioural and adrenocortical responses. The sample consisted of 96 children of the Regensburg Longitudinal Study IV. At age 12 months, attachment security and disorganization were assessed in the Strange Situation. At age 12 years, the adolescents were observed together with their mother during a computer game (eliciting ange...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 18, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Spangler, G., Zimmermann, P. Tags: Special section: Emotion regulation across the life span Source Type: research

New directions in developmental emotion regulation research across the life span: Introduction to the special section
Research on the development of emotion regulation has become a prominent topic in developmental science covering a broad age range from infancy to old age because of its theoretical importance and practical implications. This introductory essay of this special section includes reflections on some of the conceptual themes of this research field and thoughts about its future directions. (Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development)
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 18, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Zimmermann, P., Thompson, R. A. Tags: Special section: Emotion regulation across the life span Source Type: research

Predictors of disordered eating in adolescence and young adulthood: A population-based, longitudinal study of females and males in Norway
We investigated longitudinal predictors for disordered eating from early adolescence to young adulthood (12–34 years) across gender and different developmental phases among Norwegian young people. Survey data from a population-based sample were collected at four time points (T) over a 13-year time span. A population-based sample of 5,679 females and males at T1 and T2, 2,745 at T3 and 2,718 at T4 were included in analyses, and linear regression and random intercept models were applied. In adolescence, initial disordered eating and parental overprotectiveness were more strongly related to disordered eating among femal...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 18, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Abebe, D. S., Torgersen, L., Lien, L., Hafstad, G. S., Soest, T. v. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Parental control is not unconditionally detrimental for externalizing behaviors in early childhood
The association of three different strategies of maternal control (behavioral, psychological, and physical), and maternal warmth with children’s externalizing behaviors were analyzed in an observational study of 3-year-old children in Turkey (N = 123). The results indicated that (i) mothers exercised all three types of control simultaneously; (ii) behavioral control had a curvilinear association with child externalizing behaviors, suggesting the existence of an optimum level of behavioral control; and (iii) the negative effects of behavioral and psychological control could be moderated by parental warmth. These findi...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 18, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Akcinar, B., Baydar, N. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Emotion understanding and reconciliation in overt and relational conflict scenarios among preschoolers
This study examined emotion understanding and reconciliation in 47 (24 girls) 4–6-year-old preschool children. Participants first completed emotion recognition tasks and then answered questions regarding reconciliation tendencies and affective perspective-taking in a series of overt and relational aggressive conflict scenarios. Children’s teachers reported their overt aggression, relational aggression, and prosocial behaviors in daily life. The results indicated that children’s emotion recognition ability was associated with their reconciliation tendency in both types of conflict scenarios. Furthermore, c...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 18, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Liao, Z., Li, Y., Su, Y. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

A method to aid in the interpretation of EFA results: An application of Pratt's measures
This article describes a method based on Pratt’s measures and demonstrates its use in exploratory factor analyses. The article discusses the interpretational complexities due to factor correlations and how Pratt’s measures resolve these interpretational problems. Two real data examples demonstrate the calculation of what we call the "D matrix," of which the elements are Pratt’s measures. Focusing on the rows of the D matrix allows one to compare the importance of the factors to the communality of each observed indicator (horizontal interpretation); whereas a focus on the columns of the D matrix allows one...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - January 6, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Wu, A. D., Zumbo, B. D., Marshall, S. K. Tags: Methods and Measures Source Type: research

Mothers' appraisal of goodness of fit and children's social development
Goodness of fit has been a key theoretical construct for understanding caregiver–child relationships. We developed an interview method to assess goodness of fit as a relationship construct, and employed this method in a longitudinal study of child temperament, family context, and attachment relationship formation. Goodness of fit at 4 and 8 months of age predicted secure attachment at 15 months, after accounting for variance associated with SES, maternal depression, child temperament, parenting quality, and family functioning. Structural models indicated that prediction of security by goodness of fit and parenting qu...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - January 6, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Seifer, R., Dickstein, S., Parade, S., Hayden, L. C., Magee, K. D., Schiller, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Does visual attention span relate to eye movements during reading and copying?
This research investigated whether text reading and copying involve visual attention-processing skills. Children in grades 3 and 5 read and copied the same text. We measured eye movements while reading and the number of gaze lifts (GL) during copying. The children were also administered letter report tasks that constitute an estimation of the number of letters that are processed simultaneously. The tasks were designed to assess visual attention span abilities (VA). The results for both grades revealed that the children who reported more letters, i.e., processed more consonants in parallel, produced fewer rightward fixation...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - January 6, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Bosse, M.-L., Kandel, S., Prado, C., Valdois, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Genetic vulnerability interacts with parenting and early care and education to predict increasing externalizing behavior
The current study examined interactions among genetic influences and children’s early environments on the development of externalizing behaviors from 18 months to 6 years of age. Participants included 233 families linked through adoption (birth parents and adoptive families). Genetic influences were assessed by birth parent temperamental regulation. Early environments included both family (overreactive parenting) and out-of-home factors (center-based Early Care and Education; ECE). Overreactive parenting predicted more child externalizing behaviors. Attending center-based ECE was associated with increasing externaliz...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - January 6, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Lipscomb, S. T., Laurent, H., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Natsuaki, M. N., Reiss, D., Leve, L. D. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Fantasy orientation constructs and related executive function development in preschool: Developmental benefits to executive functions by being a fantasy-oriented child
This study explored unique constructs of fantasy orientation and whether there are developmental benefits for fantasy-oriented children. By age 3, children begin developing executive functions, with some children exhibiting high fantasy orientation in their cognitions and behaviors. Preschoolers (n = 106) completed fantasy orientation measures and executive function tasks, including parent and teacher questionnaires. Principal Component Analysis revealed four specific constructs within fantasy orientation (FO). Relations were examined between children’s FO constructs and executive functions to determine if developmen...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - January 6, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Pierucci, J. M., O'Brien, C. T., McInnis, M. A., Gilpin, A. T., Barber, A. B. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

What was I supposed to do? Effects of individual differences in age and anxiety on preschoolers' prospective memory
Prospective memory (PM) refers to remembering to perform a previously planned action at the appropriate time or in the appropriate context. The present study investigated the effects of individual differences in age and trait anxiety on PM performance in 3–5- and 5–7-year-olds. Two types of PM measures were used: an event-based task, requiring ongoing activity interruption across two conditions (with/without memory aid), and an activity-based task, requiring PM action implementation after the main activity was finalized. On the event-based PM task, we found that: all children benefited from the external memory ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - January 6, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Cheie, L., Miclea, M., Visu-Petra, L. Tags: Articles Source Type: research