The Development of Emotion Regulation and Dysregulation

by Edited by Judy Garber , Kenneth A. Dodge

• ISBN13: 9780521033442
• ISBN10: 0521033446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume provides a developmental perspective of the regulation and dysregulation of emotion, in particular, how children learn about feelings and how they learn to deal with both positive and negative feelings. Emotion regulation involves the interaction of physical, behavioural and cognitive processes in response to changes in one's emotional state. The changes can be brought on by factors internal to the individual (e.g. biological) or external (e.g. other people). Featuring contributions from leading researchers in developmental psychopathology, the volume concentrates on theories and data concerning the development of emotion regulation with an emphasis on both intrapersonal and interpersonal processes. Original conceptualizations of the reciprocal influences among the various response systems - neurophysiological-biochemical, behavioral-expressive, and subjective-experiential - are provided, and the individual chapters address both normal and psychopathological forms of emotion regulation, particularly depression and aggression, from infancy through adolescence. This book will appeal to specialists in developmental, clinical and social psychology, psychiatry, education, and others interested in understanding the developmental processes involved in the regulation of emotion over the course of childhood.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction

Domains of emotion regulation

Early Development

Contributions from the study of high-risk populations to understanding the development of emotion regulation

Development of emotion expression during infancy: general course and patterns of individual difference

Infant social referencing

Relationships, talk about feelings, and the development of affect regulation in early childhood

Physiological Regulation

Vagal tone: an autonomic mediator of affect

Marital discord and child outcomes: a social psychophysiological approach

Cognitive Regulation

Emotion and social information processing

Strategies and mechanisms for the personal and social control of emotion

The regulation of sad affect: an information-processing perspective

Psychopathology

Guilt and empathy: sex differences and implications for the development of depression

Age changes in depressive disorders: some developmental considerations

Integration

Emotions system functioning and emotion regulation

Author index

Subject index.

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