Handbook of Emotional Development by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030173326
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Summary and Recommendations

Since the early 1990s the study of emotion regulation has flourished and consequently created new and provocative conceptualizations, measurements, and findings. Although not a comprehensive review, in this chapter we attempted to focus on many of the important aspects of the research in ER. Other areas of import including the physiology of ER, clinical applications and interventions, and the role of institutions and culture, are addressed in other Handbook chapters.

As with any growing field of study, limitations of the research and continuing gaps in our knowledge are expected. Accordingly, there are a number of directions that future research might take to address these issues. Below we provide a few recommendations for ER researchers to consider.Research in ER has examined the strategies that effectively modify the intensity and duration of emotions. Following Gross’s model (Gross, 1998), ER can occur anywhere along the emotion generation process and includes antecedent strategies such as situation selection and cognitive change. These strategies are believed to emerge with development but the age at which children start to use these strategies is unknown. Likewise, parents with young children may use these antecedent strategies in their role as external regulators of their children’s emotions. How parents decide to act at this early point of the emotion generation process and the consequences of their actions have not been empirically examined. Lastly, the role of temperament in the use and effectiveness of ER strategies needs further study. Temperamentally inhibited children, for example, are likely to have a lower threshold for fear over other emotions and as such may require regulation skills specific to that emotion. Understanding the temperament of a child who is having difficulty with regulating emotions can be addressed by preventative measures more specifically.

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