López-Pérez Belén, Gummerum Michaela, Wilson Ellie, Dellaria Giulia
a School of Psychology , Plymouth University , Plymouth , United Kingdom.
J Genet Psychol. 2017 Mar-Apr;178(2):73-88. doi: 10.1080/00221325.2016.1230085. Epub 2016 Oct 14.
The authors relied on the Process Model of Emotion Regulation (PMER; J. J. Gross, 2007 ) to investigate children's abilities to regulate their emotions and to assess how distinct emotion regulation strategies are used by children of different ages. In Study 1, 180 parents of children aged between 3 and 8 years old reported about a situation in which their child had been able to change what she or he was feeling. In Study 2, 126 children 3-8 years old answered 2 questions about how they regulate their own emotions. Results from both studies showed age differences in children's reported emotion regulation abilities and the strategies they used. As expected, strategies such as situation selection, situation modification, and cognitive change were used more frequently by 5-6- and 7-8-year-olds, whereas attention deployment was mainly used by 3-4-year-olds. No age differences were found for response modulation. The present research contributes to the existing body of literature on emotion regulation by adding more information about the developmental patterns for each specific emotion regulation strategy.
作者依据情绪调节过程模型（PMER；J. J. 格罗斯，2007年）来研究儿童调节情绪的能力，并评估不同年龄段的儿童如何使用不同的情绪调节策略。在研究1中，180名3至8岁儿童的家长报告了他们孩子能够改变自身感受的一种情况。在研究2中，126名3至8岁的儿童回答了两个关于他们如何调节自身情绪的问题。两项研究的结果均显示，儿童报告的情绪调节能力及其使用的策略存在年龄差异。正如预期的那样，5至6岁和7至8岁的儿童更频繁地使用诸如情境选择、情境修正和认知改变等策略，而注意力分配主要由3至4岁的儿童使用。在反应调节方面未发现年龄差异。本研究通过增加每种特定情绪调节策略的发展模式的更多信息，为现有的情绪调节文献做出了贡献。
