Sentences with phrase «emotion understanding predicting»

Temperament, mothers» reactions to children's emotional experiences, and emotion understanding predicting adjustment in preschool children.

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In a similarly - designed study, researchers found that appropriate mind - minded talk in infancy predicted, at 51 months, both a child's emotion understanding and his or her performance on a false belief task (Centifanti et al 2015).

«We were most interested in understanding how children's cognitions and emotions worked together to predict whether child - friend interactions were more cooperative and positive or more negative and conflictual,» says Nancy McElwain, a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at U of I.

Schwartz (2000) describes effective school social / emotional curriculums as teaching critical social competencies: understanding and recognizing the emotions of oneself and others, predicting the consequences of personal acts, staying calm in order to think before acting, and replacing aggressive impulses with self - control and positive behavior.

Children who become aware of their own and other people's emotions, motives, desires, and feelings are better able to understand, describe, and predict people's mental states — thoughts, wants and feelings.

While the dimensions of understanding and mood repair (regulating emotions) generally predict the degree of psychosocial adjustment (Fernandez - Berrocal and Extremera 2007; Wong et al. 2007; Berking et al. 2008), the relationship between the attention (perceiving) dimension and adjustment problems is not clear; contradictory results show that attention to feelings may play a different role than understanding and mood repair.

For example, Steele et al. (1999) found that infant - mother attachment at 1 year predicted children understanding of mixed emotions 5 years later.

Infant - mother attachment at one year predicts children's understanding of mixed emotions at six years.

It has been found that the maternal proneness to contemplate children's negative emotions predicted emotional understanding in children (Dunn and Brown, 2001) whereas maternal difficulties in understanding the child's mind predicted an impairment in the children's ability to identify and deal with negative emotions (Sharp et al., 2006).

Conversely, it was found that secure mothers showed better attunement with their children and greater ability to repair mismatched states during free play (Riva Crugnola et al., 2013), as well as the maternal proclivity to talk about painful emotions predicted emotional understanding in children (Dunn and Brown, 2001), as well as the early acquisition of ToM (Hughes and Dunn, 2002).

We therefore tested whether children's temperament (effortful control and negative affect), social skills, child psychopathology, environmental stressors (life events), parental accuracy of predicting their child's emotion understanding (parental accuracy), parental emotional availability, and parental depression predict changes in depressive symptoms from preschool to first grade.