Self - report measures included the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS), the Coping Questionnaire, the Children's Negative
Affectivity Self - Statement Questionnaire, and the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI).
Not exact matches
Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2)
affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous
selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»
The importance of this study can be due to the attention to the reduced amount of investigations focused on the relationship among affect states, resilience, and perceived
self - efficacy in life skills in Italian healthy adolescents, and to the suitability to deepen the effects of positive growing factors such as «positive
affectivity» in the life span of adolescents.
The latter study demonstrated a connection between mindfulness as a distinct construct and several dimensions of well - being, including lower neuroticism, anxiety, depression and negative
affectivity, and higher positive
affectivity, vitality, life satisfaction,
self - esteem, optimism and
self - actualisation.
Temperament traits are constitutionally - based individual differences in emotional reactivity (speed and intensity of surgency and negative
affectivity) and
self - regulation of emotion, which includes strategies that modulate reactivity, such as attentional control and the inhibition of dominant responses (Rothbart et al., 2006).
Our second objective was to analyze whether fine - grained dimensions of reactivity (fear, anger, discomfort, sadness, activity level, approach, high intensity pleasure, impulsivity) and
self - regulation (attentional shifting, attentional focusing, inhibitory control), as well as the higher order temperamental factors (negative
affectivity, surgency, and effortful control) represent unique correlates of CU traits and ODD - related problems.
While most approaches involving temperament have focused on the higher factor of negative
affectivity or on its subdimension of fear (Waller et al., 2016, 2017), while not separating temperamental reactivity from
self - regulation, our analysis considered, probably for the first time in preschool population, the contributions of both fine - grained dimensions and higher order temperamental factors, for temperamental reactivity as well as for
self - regulation.
Additionally, based on Rothbart's (2007) model of temperament, we analyzed whether fine - grained dimensions of reactivity (fear, anger, discomfort, sadness, activity level, approach, high intensity pleasure, impulsivity) and
self - regulation (attentional shifting, attentional focusing, inhibitory control), as well as the higher order temperamental factors of negative
affectivity, surgency and effortful control are associated with CU traits and ODD - related problems.
Integrating and differentiating aspects of
self - regulation: Effortful control, executive functioning, and links to negative
affectivity.
It is likely that there are common characteristics shared by mothers at high risk for depression and their children, especially those involving negative
affectivity or
self regulatory abilities, which might affect the quality of peer relationships (Silberg and Rutter 2002).