Emotional Competence During Childhood and Adolescence

Denham, Susanne A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17332-6_20

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“…These developmental changes in early adolescence may influence both parental expectations for increased child emotion competence, and alter approaches to ES (e.g., parents may encourage children’s self-regulation of emotion, a strategy not much used at earlier ages). Therefore, it cannot be assumed that ES strategies from early childhood and preschool periods are used to the same extent and with the same intended purpose by parents of early adolescents, as parents may need to adapt their ES strategies based on age and changing contextual demands (see Denham, 2019; Eisenberg, 2020). For example, employing a variety of ES strategies may be more beneficial for a child as parents are teaching children different ways to react to situations (Castro & Nelson, 2018).…”

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Parental emotion socialization: Relations with adjustment, security, and maternal depression in early adolescence.

Waslin¹,

Kochendorfer²,

Blier³

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Emotion

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How parents approach and teach their children about emotions are key determinants of children's healthy adjustment (Denham, 2019). Parental emotion socialization has been mostly studied in parents of young children. Our study identified emotion socialization (ES) strategies used by parents of early adolescents (Study 1) and then examined the relations of ES strategies with early adolescent adjustment, parent-child attachment, and maternal depression (Study 2). Study 1 included 171 parents of 9-to 14-year-old children who completed an open-ended questionnaire about their reactions to their children's negative emotions, which was content coded for ES strategies. We found that parents do use the 6 traditional ES strategies (problem solving, emotion focused/comforting, encouragement, minimizing, punitive, and distress) with early adolescents, while also using 3 approaches not identified in studies of parents of younger children (self-regulation, parent seeking information, parent explaining). We also found that some ES strategies are context and gender specific. Study 2 included 218 mother and child dyads (children aged 9-to 14-years). Mothers completed the Revised Coping with Children's Negative Emotions Scale, adapted to include items assessing the 3 new strategies, and measures of child adjustment, attachment, and maternal depression. The ES strategies loaded on 3 factors: Collaborative Coping, Negative Reactions to Child's Distress, and Low Expectation for Child's Self-Regulation. Negative Reactions to Child's Distress showed associations with children's internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behavior, and child attachment, while Collaborative Coping was related to prosocial behavior. Our results point to the importance of investigating additional ES strategies in early adolescence.

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Parental emotion socialization: Relations with adjustment, security, and maternal depression in early adolescence.

Waslin¹,

Kochendorfer²,

Blier³

et al. 2023

Emotion

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“…Indeed, children who have better emotion understanding are rated as more socially skilled by their teachers, they are rated as more likable by their peers, and they are better able to navigate aggressive interactions. Likewise, children with poor emotion understanding tend to be more aggressive, present with more behavioral problems and internalizing issues, and demonstrate lower academic achievement (see Denham, 2019, for a review). Thus, how children come to understand emotions over the course of development matters for both scientific and practical reasons.…”

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How the Emotional Environment Shapes the Emotional Life of the Child

LoBue

Ogren

2021

Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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Emotion understanding facilitates the development of healthy social interactions. To develop emotion knowledge, infants and young children must learn to make inferences about people's dynamically changing facial and vocal expressions in the context of their everyday lives. Given that emotional information varies so widely, the emotional input that children receive might particularly shape their emotion understanding over time. This review explores how variation in children's received emotional input shapes their emotion understanding and their emotional behavior over the course of development. Variation in emotional input from caregivers shapes individual differences in infants’ emotion perception and understanding, as well as older children's emotional behavior. Finally, this work can inform policy and focus interventions designed to help infants and young children with social-emotional development.

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“…These insights have led to newly and specifically developed frameworks of emotion regulation in affective sciences and psycho-oncology across all age trajectories [ 14 , 15 , 16 ]. These are particularly, but not exclusively, relevant for CAYA because these age groups are confronted with different developmental tasks, possess varying baseline cognitive and emotional competencies and social support networks and thus varying resources and problem solving abilities compared to adults [ 17 , 18 , 19 ]. Distinct developmental and age-specific adaptations are, for instance, neurobiological maturation processes (such as synaptic pruning) that alter information processing and general cognitive abilities.…”

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Emotion Regulation Flexibility and Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes: A Framework for Understanding Symptoms and Affect Dynamics in Pediatric Psycho-Oncology

Mirzaie

Burns-Gebhart

Meyerheim

et al. 2022

Cancers

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Emotion dysregulation is regarded as a driving mechanism for the development of mental health problems and psychopathology. The role of emotion regulation (ER) in the management of cancer distress and quality of life (QoL) has recently been recognized in psycho-oncology. The latest technological advances afford ways to assess ER, affective experiences and QoL in child, adolescent and young adult (CAYA) cancer patients through electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePRO) in their daily environment in real-time. Such tools facilitate ways to study the dynamics of affect and the flexibility of ER. However, technological advancement is not risk-free. We critically review the literature on ePRO in cancer existing models of ER in pediatric psycho-oncology and analyze strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of ePRO with a focus on CAYA cancer research and care. Supported by personal study-based experiences, this narrative review serves as a foundation to propose a novel methodological and metatheoretical framework based on: (a) an extended notion of ER, which includes its dynamic, adaptive and flexible nature and focuses on processes and conditions rather than fixed categorical strategies; (b) ePRO as a means to measure emotion regulation flexibility and affect dynamics; (c) identifying early warning signals for symptom change via ePRO and building forecasting models using dynamical systems theory.

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Emotional Competence During Childhood and Adolescence

Cited by 45 publications

References 311 publications

Parental emotion socialization: Relations with adjustment, security, and maternal depression in early adolescence.

Parental emotion socialization: Relations with adjustment, security, and maternal depression in early adolescence.

How the Emotional Environment Shapes the Emotional Life of the Child

Emotion Regulation Flexibility and Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes: A Framework for Understanding Symptoms and Affect Dynamics in Pediatric Psycho-Oncology

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