Abstract
The authors relied on the Process Model of Emotion Regulation (PMER; J. J. Gross, Citation2007) to investigate children's abilities to regulate their emotions and to assess how distinct emotion regulation strategies are used by children of different ages. In Study 1, 180 parents of children aged between 3 and 8 years old reported about a situation in which their child had been able to change what she or he was feeling. In Study 2, 126 children 3–8 years old answered 2 questions about how they regulate their own emotions. Results from both studies showed age differences in children's reported emotion regulation abilities and the strategies they used. As expected, strategies such as situation selection, situation modification, and cognitive change were used more frequently by 5–6- and 7–8-year-olds, whereas attention deployment was mainly used by 3–4-year-olds. No age differences were found for response modulation. The present research contributes to the existing body of literature on emotion regulation by adding more information about the developmental patterns for each specific emotion regulation strategy.
DOI
10.1080/00221325.2016.1230085
Publication Date
2016-10-14
Publication Title
The Journal of Genetic Psychology
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
ISSN
1940-0896
Embargo Period
2024-11-22
First Page
1
Last Page
16
Recommended Citation
López-Pérez, B., Gummerum, M., Wilson, E., & Dellaria, G. (2016) 'Studying Children's Intrapersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies from the Process Model of Emotion Regulation', The Journal of Genetic Psychology, , pp. 1-16. Informa UK Limited: Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2016.1230085
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