Developmental differences in children's interpersonal emotion regulation
Developmental differences in children's interpersonal emotion regulation
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DOI：
10.1007/s11031-016-9569-3
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发表时间：
2016-10-01
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Gummerum, Michaela
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作者：
Lopez-Perez, Belen;Wilson, Ellie L.;Gummerum, Michaela
以往关于儿童人际情绪调节的研究主要集中在儿童的亲社会行为上，缺乏一个完整的情绪理论框架。本研究依据Niven等人提出的人际情感分类法（Emotion，9：498-509，2009），考察儿童使用不同人际情感策略的情况。这项研究利用了两个样本：180名3至8岁儿童的父母报告了一种情况，他们的孩子能够改变另一个人的感受，以使他们感觉更好。此外，126名3至8岁的儿童回答了两个关于他们如何改善他人情绪的问题。两个样本的结果显示，儿童使用人际ER策略的年龄差异。正如预期的那样，“情感参与”（即，专注于人或问题）和“认知参与”（即，从不同的角度评价情况）主要由7-8岁的孩子使用，而“注意力”（即，分散注意力和重视）在3-4岁和5-6岁儿童中使用最多。“幽默”（即，与目标一起笑）在不同年龄组中保持稳定。本研究提供了更多关于每种具体的人际情绪调节策略的发展模式的信息。
Previous research on interpersonal emotion regulation (ER) in childhood has been rather unsystematic, focusing mainly on children's prosocial behaviour, and has been conducted in the absence of an integrative emotion theoretical framework. The present research relied on the interpersonal affect classification proposed by Niven et al. (Emotion, 9:498-509, 2009) to investigate children's use of different interpersonal ER strategies. The study drew on two samples: 180 parents of children aged between 3 and 8 years reported about a situation where their child was able to change what another person was feeling in order to make them feel better. In addition, 126 children between 3- and 8-years old answered two questions about how they could improve others' mood. Results from both samples showed age differences in children's use of interpersonal ER strategies. As expected, 'affective engagement' (i.e., focusing on the person or the problem) and 'cognitive engagement' (i.e., appraising the situation from a different perspective) were mainly used by 7-8 years-old, whereas 'attention' (i.e., distracting and valuing) was most used by 3-4 and 5-6 years-old. 'Humor' (i.e., laughing with the target) remained stable across the different age groups. The present research provides more information about the developmental patterns for each specific interpersonal emotion regulation strategy.