Temperamental surgency and emotion regulation as predictors of childhood social competence
Temperamental surgency and emotion regulation as predictors of childhood social competence
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jecp.2012.02.004
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发表时间：
2012-06-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Stifter, Cynthia A.
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作者：
Dollar, Jessica M.;Stifter, Cynthia A.
本研究的主要目的是纵向考察儿童的气质冲动与社会行为之间的直接关系以及儿童情绪调节的调节作用。共有90名4.5岁儿童参加了实验室参观，实验人员对儿童的气质手术进行了评分，并对儿童的情绪调节能力进行了评估。进入一年级前的那个夏天，孩子们在实验室里与不熟悉的同龄人的社交行为被观察，母亲们完成了一份关于孩子社交行为的调查问卷。结果支持了我们的假设，显示气质外向性高的儿童会产生更多消极的同伴行为，而气质外向性低的儿童更有可能对同龄人产生行为警惕。研究发现，情绪调节行为可以调节气质冲动与攻击性之间的关系，表现出高水平寻求社会支持的高冲动儿童不太可能被母亲评价为具有高攻击性。此外，结果显示，表现出较高水平的分心/自我安慰的低活跃度儿童更有可能在不熟悉的同龄人面前表现出行为警惕，而使用更多分心/自我安慰行为的高活跃度儿童被母亲评为社交能力较低。 (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. 保留所有权利。
The primary aims of the current study were to longitudinally examine the direct relationship between children's temperamental surgency and social behaviors as well as the moderating role of children's emotion regulation. A total of 90 4.5-year-old children participated in a laboratory visit where children's temperamental surgency was rated by experimenters and children's emotion regulation abilities were assessed. The summer before entry into first grade, children's social behaviors with unfamiliar peers were observed in the laboratory and mothers completed a questionnaire about children's social behaviors. Supporting our hypotheses, results revealed that children high in temperamental surgency developed more negative peer behaviors, whereas children low in temperamental surgency were more likely to develop behavioral wariness with peers. Emotion regulatory behaviors were found to moderate the relation between temperamental surgency and aggression, where high-surgent children who showed high levels of social support seeking were less likely to be rated by their mothers as high in aggression. Furthermore, results revealed that low-surgent children who showed high levels of distraction/self-soothing were more likely to show behavioral wariness around unfamiliar peers, whereas high-surgent children who used more distraction/self-soothing behaviors were rated by their mothers as lower in social competence. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.