Emotion dynamics in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic and descriptive review.

Reitsema, Anne Margit; Jeronimus, Bertus F.; Dijk, Marijn van; Jonge, Peter de

doi:10.1037/emo0000970

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“…This is in contrast to the results of a recent meta-analysis that found higher variability in positive emotions in youth with internalizing mental disorders compared with healthy peers. 71 This might be due to greater emotional reactivity in adolescents (compared with children and adults) because adolescence is commonly described as a time of inner “emotional turmoil.” 56 Children and adolescents high in emotional reactivity are disproportionally negatively affected by adverse environments but profit enormously from supportive settings. 8 , 10 , 18 It might be that adolescents in our study were exposed to situations or supportive individuals (parents, peers, and teachers) that boosted positive affect and facilitated healthy regulation of emotions.…”

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“… 2 Maladaptive response-focused ER may be an important risk factor for the development and maintenance of chronic pain in adults. 51 Past research has linked greater emotion variability, ie, the range of emotional fluctuations around an individual's average emotional intensity, 71 with more mental health symptoms in adolescents 64 , 72 and higher ER demands. 40 Importantly, higher negative emotion variability has been associated with greater pain and activity limitations in youth with chronic pain.…”

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Association of parental and adolescent emotion-related factors with adolescent chronic pain behaviors

Koechlin

Beeckman

Meier

et al. 2021

Pain

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Chronic pain is a prevalent condition in youth, and the pain experience is strongly influenced by emotional processes. Studying emotion variability and regulation (ER) may help better understand pain behavior. As the development of emotion-related abilities predominantly takes place in the family context, examining ER within parent-adolescent dyads is important. We set out to test the association of parent and adolescent ER and adolescent emotional variability with adolescent pain behavior (ie, pain interference, activity avoidance, and activity engagement). A sample of 56 adolescents (M age 5 14.5, 85.7% women) with chronic pain and one of their parents (92.9% mothers) participated in this study. Adolescents completed baseline measures of average pain intensity, ER, and mean positive and negative affect. Furthermore, adolescents completed an electronic diary for 14 consecutive days, reporting on emotional state, activity avoidance, activity engagement, and pain interference. Parents completed measures of ER and their own history of pain. We performed a variable selection procedure, the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator method, to determine important predictors of adolescent pain behavior. Adolescent high positive affect was associated with more activity engagement, less pain interference, and less activity avoidance, indicating that positive affect might enhance the willingness to engage in activities in the presence of pain. Adolescent ER strategy emotional reappraisal and parents' own history of pain were predictors of less activity engagement. Parent ER was not related to adolescent ER. In conclusion, our results highlight the potential of enhancing positive affect as an intervention target for chronic pain.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Association of parental and adolescent emotion-related factors with adolescent chronic pain behaviors

Koechlin

Beeckman

Meier

et al. 2021

Pain

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“…Van Lissa et al ( 2019 ) have further noted that caregivers may have higher expectations for their adolescent’s ability to manage their emotions and if those expectations aren’t met, caregivers may intervene with more supervision and control. Indeed, the more intense emotions that can accompany adolescence (Reitsema et al, 2021 ) may pull caregivers in at the very time that their teen is pushing away which may lead to a higher level of negative emotions throughout the family system.…”

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“…While this caregiver is now more explicitly involved in responding to their adolescent’s day-to-day emotional needs, this change has been made possible by reorganizing coregulation at the level of the entire family system in order to provide an environment in which the adolescent’s emotional development and need for increased autonomy can both be supported. Although the trajectory of emotion regulation during childhood and adolescence has been the focus of a number of researchers (Morris et al, 2017 ; Reitsema et al, 2021 ; Silvers, 2022 ), there remains a need to understand how patterns of emotion regulation and coregulation shift within and across different subsystems and the whole family system as children in the family progress through different developmental stages.…”

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Conceptualizing Emotion Regulation and Coregulation as Family-Level Phenomena

Paley

Hajal

2022

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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The ability to regulate one’s emotions is foundational for healthy development and functioning in a multitude of domains, whereas difficulties in emotional regulation are recognized as a risk factor for a range of adverse outcomes in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Caregivers play a key role in cultivating the development of emotion regulation through coregulation, or the processes by which they provide external support or scaffolding as children navigate their emotional experiences. The vast majority of research to date has examined coregulation in the context of caregiver–child dyads. In this paper, we consider emotion regulation and coregulation as family-level processes that unfold within and across multiple family subsystems and explore how triadic and whole family interactions may contribute to the development of children’s emotion regulation skills. Furthermore, we will examine the implications of a family-centered perspective on emotion regulation for prevention of and intervention for childhood emotional and behavioral disorders. Because emotion regulation skills undergo such dramatic maturation during children’s first several years of life, much of our focus will be on coregulation within and across the family system during early childhood; however, as many prevention and intervention approaches are geared toward school-aged children and adolescents, we will also devote some attention to later developmental periods.

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“…As previously proposed, emotion dynamics [14], or the way emotions unfold during an interaction, may be modeled through a series of feedback loops, where linguistic signaling of emotion by the interlocutors is fed back into the system (i.e., the interacting dyad) to support the coordination of the composing units (i.e., the interacting individuals). This proposed modeling approach relies on a vast literature pointing to the role of feedback in emotion and emotion regulation [14][15][16][17][18][19]. In this context of emotion dynamics, anticipating a change in the interlocutors' emotion is important in calibrating interactions, specifically in cultures such as China, where "the expression of emotion is carefully regulated out of concern for its capacity to disrupt group harmony and status hierarchies" [20] (p. 245) and emotions play a crucial role in face-work and trust building [21].…”

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Predicting Change in Emotion through Ordinal Patterns and Simple Symbolic Expressions

Neuman

Cohen

2022

Mathematics

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Human interlocutors may use emotions as an important signaling device for coordinating an interaction. In this context, predicting a significant change in a speaker’s emotion may be important for regulating the interaction. Given the nonlinear and noisy nature of human conversations and relatively short time series they produce, such a predictive model is an open challenge, both for modeling human behavior and in engineering artificial intelligence systems for predicting change. In this paper, we present simple and theoretically grounded models for predicting the direction of change in emotion during conversation. We tested our approach on textual data from several massive conversations corpora and two different cultures: Chinese (Mandarin) and American (English). The results converge in suggesting that change in emotion may be successfully predicted, even with regard to very short, nonlinear, and noisy interactions.

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Emotion dynamics in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic and descriptive review.

Cited by 68 publications

References 150 publications

Association of parental and adolescent emotion-related factors with adolescent chronic pain behaviors

Association of parental and adolescent emotion-related factors with adolescent chronic pain behaviors

Conceptualizing Emotion Regulation and Coregulation as Family-Level Phenomena

Predicting Change in Emotion through Ordinal Patterns and Simple Symbolic Expressions

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