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3-109 - Understanding Processes underlying Children's Emotional Development and Emotion Regulation Using Intensive Longitudinal Approaches

Sat, March 23, 12:45 to 2:15pm, Baltimore Convention Center, Floor: Level 3, Room 313

Session Type: Paper Symposium

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Emotion expression and regulation are conceptually distinct constructs. Yet the emotion field struggles with being able to effectively measure emotion expression and regulation as distinct behaviors, especially as children age and are better able to regulate. By examining temporal relations between emotion expression and regulation on a micro scale, we may be able to clarify the dynamic processes between the two and better distinguish emotion expression from regulatory behaviors in the moment. The papers in this symposium have applied a variety of intensive longitudinal methods, including Hidden Markov Models, multivariate multilevel modeling, and generalized multilevel modeling to examine the temporal associations among children’s emotion expression and regulatory behaviors. The first paper examines the dynamic relations among expressed affect, emotion regulation, inhibitory control, and culture in preschoolers from Mexican American and Chinese American immigrant families. The second paper approximates children’s latent fear states and models their state transitions over time. The authors then identify groups with similar dynamic trajectories through fear states. The third paper examines whether child heritable factors moderate the association between regulatory behaviors and anger expressions. The fourth paper investigates how child heritable factors and adoptive mothers’ depressive symptoms interact to moderate mother-child contingent negativity and behavioral interactions. Findings from these studies can advance our understanding of emotional competence as a dynamic process and promote interventions aimed to improve appropriate emotion expression and regulation.

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