Emotion Understanding Moderates the Association Between Relational Adversity and Emotion Regulation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carly J. Crandell ◽  
Sara R. Berzenski
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Emotion Understanding

Emotional competence and behavior problems: Differences across Preschool Assessment of Attachment classifications

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shari L. Kidwell ◽  
Marion E. Young ◽  
Lisa D. Hinkle ◽  
Ashley D. Ratliff ◽  
Meagan E. Marcum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Emotional Competence ◽  
Emotion Understanding ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Preschool Assessment ◽  
Parental Symptoms ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
And Behavior

This study examined attachment in association with preschoolers’ emotional functioning among 54 predominantly low-income families living in Appalachia. Attachment was assessed at age 4 years using the Strange Situation (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978) and classified with the PAA (Crittenden, 2004). Emotional competence was measured via an interview about children’s memories for six emotions, rated in terms of both emotion understanding and regulation. Parent-, teacher-, and self-reports of children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms were also completed. Questionnaires and interviews assessed socioeconomic risk and parental symptoms and negative childhood experiences. Children’s PAA strategies were significantly associated with risks, emotion regulation and understanding, and symptoms. Children using highly coercive strategies showed the greatest difficulties. Emotion regulation and understanding also were associated with parent- and teacher-report of symptoms. These findings suggest that intervention efforts with at-risk youngsters should target not only attachment security, but also emotional competence skills.

Emotion socialization, child emotion understanding and regulation, and adjustment in urban African American families: Differential associations across child gender

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jera Nelson Cunningham ◽  
Wendy Kliewer ◽  
Pamela W. Garner
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
African American ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Emotion Socialization ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
Clinical Intervention ◽  
Emotion Understanding ◽  
Internalizing Behaviors ◽  
Child Gender ◽  
Emotional Socialization

AbstractThe prospective relation of maternal emotion philosophy to children's emotion understanding and regulation and positive and negative adjustment was investigated. Sixty-nine African American youth (50% male; M age = 11.29 years) and their maternal caregivers living in high violence areas of a midsized city participated in this interview study. Caregivers' meta-emotion philosophy predicted child emotion understanding and emotion regulation, which also were associated with Time 2 grades, internalizing behaviors, externalizing behaviors, and social skills after controlling for Time 1 adjustment. Emotional understanding mediated the relationship between caregivers' emotional socialization and boys' internalizing behaviors and between caregivers' emotional socialization and girls' social skills. In addition, emotion regulation mediated the relationships between emotional socialization and all four outcomes for boys. Implications for future work on emotion socialization and clinical intervention, particularly related to emotion regulation, are discussed.

Emotionally intelligent people show more flexible regulation of emotions in daily life

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kit S Double ◽  
Rebecca Pinkus ◽  
Carolyn MacCann
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Emotion Understanding ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Moderate Effect ◽  
Regulatory Flexibility ◽  
Emotionally Intelligent

Emotion regulation strategies have been characterized as adaptive or maladaptive; however, the ability to switch strategies to best suit the situation (regulatory flexibility and adaptability) underlies effective emotion regulation. Emotional intelligence may be a key capacity that enables flexible emotion regulation. We use experience sampling data from 165 participants to test whether emotional intelligence abilities (emotion understanding and management) predict variability in four emotion regulation strategies. Results show that both the emotion understanding and emotion management branches of emotional intelligence significantly relate to between-strategy variability (with moderate effect sizes), but only emotion understanding significantly predicts within-strategy variability. These findings support the hypothesis that emotional intelligence is an important predictor of the ability to flexibly vary emotion regulation depending on the situation.

scholarly journals Heart Rate Variability Modulates Interoceptive Accuracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Lischke ◽  
Rike Pahnke ◽  
Anett Mau-Moeller ◽  
Matthias Weippert
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Heart Rate Variability ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Emotion Understanding ◽  
Autonomous Nervous System ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Interoceptive Accuracy

Our emotional experiences depend on our interoceptive ability to perceive and interpret changes in our autonomous nervous system. An inaccurate perception and interpretation of autonomic changes impairs our ability to understand and regulate our emotional reactions. Impairments in emotion understanding and emotion regulation increase our risk for mental disorders, indicating that interoceptive deficits play an important role in the etiology and pathogenesis of mental disorders. We, thus, need measures to identify those of us whose interoceptive deficits impair their emotion understanding and emotion regulation. Here, we used cardiac measures to investigate how our ability to engage prefrontal and (para-)limbic brain region regions affects our ability to perceive and interpret cardiac changes. We administered a heartbeat detection task to a sample of healthy individuals (n = 113) whose prefrontal-(para-) limbic engagement had been determined on basis of a heart rate variability recording. We found a positive association between heartbeat detection and heart rate variability, implying that individuals with higher heart rate variability were more accurate in heartbeat detection than individuals with lower heart rate variability. These findings suggest that our interoceptive accuracy depends on our prefrontal-(para-)limbic engagement during the perception and interpretation of cardiac changes. Our findings also show that cardiac measures may be useful to investigate the association between interoceptive accuracy and prefrontal-(para-)limbic engagement in a time- and cost-efficient manner.

The Role of Culture in Understanding and Evaluating Emotional Intelligence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Huynh ◽  
Harrison Oakes ◽  
Igor Grossmann
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Emotion Perception ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Emotion Understanding ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Substantial Role ◽  
Affective Processes

The current understanding of emotional intelligence (EI) is flawed and incomplete. In the present chapter we briefly highlight some of the major controversies surrounding EI, including the lack of agreement on how to define it and measurement inconsistencies. We propose that the key gap in current EI scholarship concerns the lack of awareness of cultural impacts on affective processes that underlie various components of EI abilities. Drawing from prior theoretical models, we overview three components that have been described as encompassing the construct of ability EI: emotion perception, emotion understanding, and emotion regulation. For each of these components, we review the relevant cultural literature and discuss how cultural differences can play a substantial role in our understanding of EI as an overall construct. We conclude by discussing how culture should be incorporated into the application and assessment of EI abilities. Ultimately, we propose that one cannot truly understand and talk about EI without considering the context of culture.

The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise S. Dan-Glauser ◽  
Klaus R. Scherer
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
French Translation ◽  
French Version ◽  
Inappropriate Behaviors ◽  
Initial Validation ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Instrument Measuring ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Psychopathological Disorders

Successful emotion regulation is a key aspect of efficient social functioning and personal well-being. Difficulties in emotion regulation lead to relationship impairments and are presumed to be involved in the onset and maintenance of some psychopathological disorders as well as inappropriate behaviors. Gratz and Roemer (2004 ) developed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), a comprehensive instrument measuring emotion regulation problems that encompasses several dimensions on which difficulties can occur. The aim of the present work was to develop a French translation of this scale and to provide an initial validation of this instrument. The French version was created using translation and backtranslation procedures and was tested on 455 healthy students. Congruence between the original and the translated scales was .98 (Tucker’s phi) and internal consistency of the translation reached .92 (Cronbach’s α). Moreover, test-retest scores were highly correlated. Altogether, the initial validation of the French version of the DERS (DERS-F) offers satisfactory results and permits the use of this instrument to map difficulties in emotion regulation in both clinical and research contexts.

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