Measuring reactive and regulatory processes in middle childhood

情绪调节（emotional regulation，ER）的概念被定义为人类影响情绪体验的基本过程，最近在情绪基础研究中获得了巨大的吸引力。 此外，童年一直被认为是一个关键时期，在这个时期，塑造情绪的神经调节过程出现并开始成熟。 然而，ER的结构效度和测量的研究并没有跟上巨大的热情，ER被调用作为一个解释机制的情绪相关的过程。此外，虽然对成人的研究已经使用神经影像学技术，以更好地了解ER的神经基板，这种方法在儿童ER的工作中的应用一直缓慢出现。 为了使该领域的进步，有关ER的测量，其预测相关结构的有效性，其神经发育底物的基本问题必须得到回答。 因此，在本发明中，

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,