Reassessing emotion regulation.
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Abstract Developmental research on emotion regulation is increasingly advancing toward a systems view that integrates behavioral and biological constituents of emotional self-control. However, this view poses fundamental challenges to prevailing conceptualizations of emotion regulation. In portraying emotion regulation as a network of multilevel processes characterized by feedback and interaction between higher and lower systems, it becomes increasingly apparent that emotion regulation is a component of (rather than a response to) emotional activation, that it derives from the mutual influence of multiple emotion-related systems (rather than the maturation of higher control processes alone), and that it sometimes contributes to maladaptive behavioral outcomes, especially in conditions of environmental adversity. The implications of this perspective for the developmental study of emotion regulation are discussed.
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- Authors
- Thompson, R. A., Lewis, M. D., & Calkins, S. D.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Davis (US)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro (US)
- Corresponding author
- Thompson, Ross A
- Venue
- Child Development Perspectives
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2008-11-24
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 124-131
- ISSN
- 1750-8592 (ISSN-L)
- 1750-8606
- OpenAlex
- W2066882223
- Cited by
- 300
- References
- 11
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- FWCI
- 13.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- libres.uncg.edu
- Locations
- Child Development Perspectives (publishedVersion)
- NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
- Keywords
- emotion regulation, emotional arousal, environmental adversity, maladaptive behavior
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