Forty - three preschoolers with autism and 28 typically developing preschoolers were coded on
emotion regulation strategies used during low - level stress tasks.
Compared to LD, HD participants reported significantly greater shame proneness, poorer functioning on emotion regulation competencies (emotional control, self - awareness and situational responsiveness), less healthy
emotion regulation strategy use (less reappraisal and greater suppression), and lower levels of guilt proneness.
These results may provide insight into ways in which
emotion regulation strategy use maintains psychological disorders.
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Emotion regulation strategy use in children and adolescents: The explanatory roles of personality and attachment / Personality & Individual Differences 52 (5): 616 ~ 621
Relationships Between Parent and Child
Emotion Regulation Strategy Use: A Brief Report.
Not exact matches
Strategies to Cool Your Hot
Emotions:
Using Mind and Body First, let me note that one of the best sets of mind - body approaches to cooling down hot emotional reactions can be found in the various
emotion regulation skills and practices in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (created by Marsha M. Lineman, a practicing Buddhist).
We automatically
use emotion regulation strategies every day, though some may be healthier than others.
ABSTRACT: This study aimed to explore Chinese teachers»
emotion regulation goals and
strategies used before, in, and after classroom teaching.
Emotion regulation interventions teach people to cope with negative affect
using strategies like deep breathing, nonjudgmental awareness, and guided imagery.
In effect, because of the retrospective character of such instruments (Cleary, 2011; Greene, Robertson, & Croker Costa, 2011) and their sensibility to social desirability (Perry & Winne, 2006; Winne & Perry, 2000), students may have under - or over-estimated their level of anxiety or the extent to which they
used emotion regulation strategies in math problem - solving.
Second, it would be interesting to develop the findings regarding performance by examining variables that are at the same time strongly associated with performance and in a non-ambivalent way to
emotion regulation, such as the way students process information (superficial versus in - depth), the way students regulate their learning (self -
regulation versus external guidance) and the kind of cognitive
strategies used (i.e. among a list of problem - solving heuristics)(Pekrun, 2006).
Session 4 attends to anxiety and problem solving; sessions 5 - 6 focus on more intense
emotions, particularly anger, and include
emotion regulation strategies,
using the turtle technique from PATHS and safe expression of anger.
The dissociative
strategy leads to «permanent alterations in the maturing brain» and «increase the
use of dissociation in later life» p. 69 Therapist Receptivity, Unhelpful, and Helpful Responses In Synergetic Play Therapy, the therapist is receptive to the child's defensive projective identification, willing to experience the induced
emotions, and able to regulate, thereby giving the child the experience of interpersonal
regulation and also teaching the child that «auto -
regulation» or
regulation of affect «on their own» is possible.
Kunzmann and colleagues pointed out that it is important to investigate age differences in
emotion regulation by
using other forms of regulatory
strategy.
People who engage in BE report
using fewer
emotion regulation strategies than healthy controls [37], and thus may have difficulty responding when children express negative
emotions [38].
The purpose of the lessons is to build emotional competencies in all children and to increase support for teacher reinforcement of the
use of
emotion -
regulation strategies by children.
This might be explained by the findings that adolescents who experience depressive symptoms
use less adaptive
emotion regulation strategies (Aldao et al. 2010), and experience more academic difficulties (Jaycox et al. 2009).
In addition, experiencing depressive symptoms is often associated with the
use of less effective and adaptive
emotion regulation strategies such as avoidance, rumination and suppression (see for a review Aldao et al. 2010).
Looking at individual differences in
emotion regulation from the perspective of
regulation strategies, research has shown that individuals» greater
use of suppression — a
strategy that downregulates the expression of negative
emotions, but does not necessarily reduce the experience of it — was related to a greater experience of negative
emotions and depressive symptoms and lower levels of optimism.
Research on
emotion regulation within the domain of interpersonal problem solving suggests that older adults prioritize managing their
emotions during problem solving and that the specific
emotion - focused
strategies that they
use are more effective when dealing with emotionally charged problems compared with those employed by younger individuals (Blanchard - Fields, 2007; Blanchard - Fields, Chen, & Norris, 1997; Blanchard - Fields, Jahnke, & Camp, 1995; Blanchard - Fields, Stein, & Watson, 2004).
This paper illustrates a method for operationalizing affect dynamics
using a multilevel stochastic differential equation (SDE) model, and examines how those dynamics differ with age and trait - level tendencies to deploy
emotion regulation strategies (reappraisal and suppression).
Another limitation is that while we have reason to believe that younger rapid regulators were
using suppression as an
emotion regulation strategy because of their inability to maintain a regulated positive mood state, we do not know this for certain.
A measure such as Gross and John's (2003)
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire would have been useful in the current study as we could have observed what specific
strategies — suppression or reappraisal — older and younger rapid regulators and nonregulators prefer to
use.
An adult life - span sample (N = 557) sorted 13
emotion regulation strategies either by (a) how effective the
strategies would be or (b) how likely they would be to
use them, in 15 negative
emotion - eliciting situations.
The community - based, outpatient, intensive behavioral treatment involves five major components: 1) Teaching and supporting parenting skills including nurturing and attachment, reinforcement,
emotion regulation, supervision, non-harsh discipline, and nutrition; 2) Delivering substance abuse treatment including contingency management, relationship building, day planning, healthy environments and peer choices, and refusal skills; 3) Resource building and provision of ancillary supports including housing, employment, support with court and child welfare attendance; 4)
Use of incentives (FAIR bucks to spend in the FAIR store) for success with all treatment components; and 5) Ongoing engagement
strategies.
Whereas better interoceptive sensitivity was related to reduced maladaptive
emotion regulation, specifically rumination, high HRV was related to more
use of external
emotion regulation strategies (i.e., support seeking).
The FEEL - KJ may prove to be a valuable addition to these instruments because it measures a comprehensive range of
emotion regulation strategies assumed to be
used by children and adolescents in response to three different
emotions.
In contexts of heightened emotional stress and dysregulated states, individuals with comorbid internalizing and substance
use disorders may be more likely drawn to drugs as a means to cope, which not only limits learning of effective
emotion regulation and coping
strategies, but also further reinforces addictive behaviors.
The Cognitive
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), for instance, measures 5 adaptive and 4 non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies that children and adolescents use when they experience negative life events [
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), for instance, measures 5 adaptive and 4 non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies that children and adolescents use when they experience negative life event
Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), for instance, measures 5 adaptive and 4 non-adaptive cognitive
emotion regulation strategies that children and adolescents use when they experience negative life events [
emotion regulation strategies that children and adolescents use when they experience negative life event
regulation strategies that children and adolescents
use when they experience negative life events [16,25].
Using a greater number of positive coping
strategies at Time 1 was associated with better
emotion regulation at Time 2, and better
emotion regulation at Time 1 was associated with
use of a greater number of positive coping
strategies at Time 2.
Hence there is a lack of an instrument that simultaneously reflects elementary and secondary students» reality, that assesses
emotion regulation strategies in context, and that considers the variety of the theoretical approaches
used to investigate this subject.
Because of this, the FEEL - KJ is not restricted to
emotion regulation strategies that are part of a specific theoretical framework but instead includes a wide range of
strategies children and adolescents commonly
use.
More specifically, we emphasize that through the
use of both modern and post-modern models, marriage and family therapists may
use emotion regulation strategies to assist clients in overcoming the negative repercussions of traumatic events.
The FEEL - KJ [26] is a 90 - item self - report measure
used to assess
emotion regulation strategies in response to feelings of anxiety, sadness, and anger.
The FEEL - KJ can, for instance, be
used to test whether different
emotion regulation strategies relate to different psychological problems [14].
Twelve of these
strategies can be classified under the widely
used higher order categories adaptive and maladaptive
emotion regulation [6,27], making the FEEL - KJ useful for developmental psychopathology research.
Given the lack of research, it is not clear whether
using a greater number of negative coping
strategies will be associated with poorer self esteem,
emotion regulation and academic achievement over time.
As depicted in Table 7, there is a significant gender difference in the
use of
emotion regulation strategies.
This self - report instrument evaluates nine cognitive
emotion regulation strategies that can be
used by children after experiencing a negative life event.
This allows clinical practitioners to get a detailed overview of the
emotion regulation strategies that are
used by a specific child or adolescent.
Structural Equation Modelling was
used to test whether the link between attachment to parents and the
use of particular coping
strategies is mediated by differences in
emotion regulation mechanisms.
Current research shows that deficits in
emotion regulation (i.e., the frequent
use of dysfunctional
regulation strategies and a lack of
use of functional
strategies) are associated with psychosocial impairment.
Once these problems have been addressed, cognitive behavioral techniques can be applied to reduce the
use of maladaptive
strategies and increase the
use of adaptive
strategies based on the
emotion regulation profile derived from the FEEL - KJ.
The FEEL - KJ [26] is interesting in this respect because it measures 15
emotion regulation strategies for three different
emotions (i.e., anxiety, sadness, and anger) and is adapted for
use in both childhood and adolescence.
First, if on the whole,
emotion regulation strategies are only
used from time to time, one
strategy stands out by virtue of being most often
used; this is «task utility self - persuasion».
In line with the broaden - and - build theory, a bidirectional association also was found between
emotion regulation and the number of positive coping
strategies used when stressed.
There also was a unidirectional association found between the
use of negative coping and
emotion regulation; specifically,
using less negative coping
strategies (as measured by a count and a mean) at Time 1 was associated with better
emotion regulation at Time 2.
Our results suggest that
emotion regulation may be a distinct way to help broaden an individual's positive coping resources when stressed, and in turn, individuals who
use a greater amount of positive coping
strategies when stressed may be better able to regulate their
emotions in a more positive manner.
When one does not have hypotheses regarding specific
emotion regulation strategies, it is recommended to
use the higher - order scales as these are more comprehensive and more reliable than the primary scales.
Further, past research
using the ALEQ with Chinese samples has indicated that it is associated with (a) higher levels of depressive symptoms, (b) greater risky behavior engagement, and (c) greater endorsement of maladaptive
emotion regulation strategies (Auerbach et al. 2007, 2009a, b).