Zimmermann, P., & Thompson, R.A. (2014). New directions in developmental emotion regulation research across the life span: Introduction to the special section. Flashcards
What is the article about?
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. The article is an introductory essay on some of the conceptual themes of the research in this field as well as some thoughts about its future directions.
How long have researchers been looking into emotion regulation?
For almost 40 years.
What were the initial research questions in the field of emotion regulation?
Developmental interest in emotion regulation was initially devoted to understanding early risk for affective psychopathology and the origins of social competence in childhood.
There are various approaches to defining emotion regulation. Thompson has a rather broad one. Which?
Emotion regulation are the extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and modifying emotional reactions, especially their intensive and temporal features, to accomplish one’s goals.
Adolescents’ adrenocortical response in experimental situations designed to elicit fear and anager was in a longitudinal study predicted by …
the security of attachment and attachment disorganization at 12 moths, as well as current maternal support.
A study mentioned in the article found support for something mediating the impact of a mothers’ emotion-related beliefs and the emotion regulation of their preschool children. What?
Their emotion-related socialization strategies.
Zimmermann and Thompson mention some of the fields’ current research questions. Mention one of them.
- To what extent are strategies of emotion regulation context-and emtoion-specific; or, instead, reflective of broader individual differences in personality organization?
