Relations of Emotion Regulation, Negative and Positive Affect to Anxiety and Depression in Middle Childhood
Autor: | Leslie F. Halpern, Jeremy K. Fox, Julie L. Ryan, Kristen Uhl, Celia Tam |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
050103 clinical psychology
Coping (psychology) Child psychopathology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Anger Affect (psychology) Sadness Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Anxiety 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Temperament medicine.symptom Worry Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common Clinical psychology |
Zdroj: | Journal of Child and Family Studies. 28:2988-2999 |
ISSN: | 1573-2843 1062-1024 |
Popis: | The associations between coping, emotion regulation, and child psychopathology have been the subject of extensive research. Many studies have focused on voluntary processes of emotion regulation. In addition to controlled regulatory processes, children’s involuntary, automatic processes based in individual differences in temperament may also impact emotion regulation and children’s psychological adjustment. The current study examined the relations of emotion regulation and temperament to children’s symptoms of anxiety and depression in middle childhood. Study participants included 126 children (50% Male, 68.0% Caucasian; M = 9.60 years, SD = 0.52) recruited from a suburban school district. Participants completed self-report measures of emotion regulation, trait affect, and anxiety and depression severity. Results showed that children reported using active self-regulatory strategies more than any other form of emotion regulation in response to anger, worry, fear, and sadness. Significant relationships were found between negative affect and poor emotion regulation or “dysregulation” (r = 0.25, p |
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