Sentences with phrase «regulate emotional arousal»

Although researchers have long recognized the relations between children's emotional competence and peer social preference (e.g. Cillessen and Mayeux 2004; Contreras and Kerns 2000; Gottman et al. 1996), it is only recently that integrated theoretical models have been articulated in which the child's ability to regulate emotional arousal is identified as a key factor influencing the child's social behavior and peer social preference.

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Maternal insensitivity and emotional unavailability influences the infant's ability to develop a capacity for arousal regulation.25 Insensitive maternal behaviour results in increased anger, distress and crying — together, these might reflect an infant's poor arousal regulation.26 PPD also alters the capacity to regulate the reciprocal interaction between mothers and their infant via two patterns: intrusiveness and withdrawal.

We suggest that the nature of emotional arousal which accompanies trauma alters the physical process by which the body regulates future affective stimuli in ways that are potentially detrimental to human relationships.