Measuring reactive and regulatory processes in middle childhood

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The concept of emotion regulation (ER), defined as fundamental processes by which humans influence emotion experience, has recently gained immense traction in basic research on emotion.  Further, childhood has long been thought to be a crucial period in which neural regulatory processes that shape emotion emerge and begin to mature.  However, research on the construct validity and measurement of ER has not kept pace with the tremendous enthusiasm with which ER is invoked as an explanatory mechanism for emotion-related processes. Further, while research on adults has used neuroimaging techniques to better understand the neural substrates of ER, the application of this methodology in work on children’s ER has been slow to emerge.  In order for the field to advance, fundamental questions regarding the measurement of ER, its predictive validity for related constructs, and its neurodevelopmental substrates must be answered.  Thus,