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The Development of Children's Strategies for the Social Control of Emotion

McCoy, Charles L., Masters, John C.·1985·Child Development
DOI 10.2307/1130236
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It has been shown that young children can recognize emotional states in their peers, that they understand many of the antecedents of emotion, and they are motivated to change negative emotional states in others. The present study examined children's ability to nominate strategic social action that would alter the ongoing emotional state of a peer. Children of 3 ages--5, 8, and 12 years of age--viewed a picture of a young child actually experiencing happiness, sadness, anger, or in a neutral state. In a portion of instances, information was also provided about the social or nonsocial experience that led to the target child's state. The strategies children nominated fell into a small set of agonistic (nurturant) and antagonistic (aggressive) behaviors intended to change positive or negative states. With increasing age, children tended to nominate a greater proportion of verbal strategies, social strategies (with the exception of strategies nominated to change anger), and strategies that directly addressed the cause of another's emotional state.

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  • Caregiving provides a host of regulatory functions in humans, such as buffering against emotion dysregulation and stress reactivity in youth.

    “Caregiving provides a host of regulatory functions in humans, such as buffering against emotion dysregulation and stress reactivity in youth (Campos et al., 1975, Hofer, 1994, McCoy and Masters, 1985, Gunnar and Donzella, 2002).”

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Authors
McCoy, C. L., & Masters, J. C.
Venue
Child Development
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
1985-10
Volume
56
Issue
5
Pages
1214
ISSN
0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/1130236
OpenAlex
W2036401761
Cited by
86
References
22
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 6 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 3 · 2012: 1
FWCI
3.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Child Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
Keywords
emotion regulation strategies, children's strategies, emotional contagion, age differences, speech strategies, social strategies, aggression, anger, sadness, happiness
MeSH terms
Aggression, Child, Child Development, Child, Preschool, Emotions, Empathy, Female, Helping Behavior, Humans, Male, Social Behavior

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