University of California, Riverside.
Child Dev. 2019 Nov;90(6):1935-1951. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13070. Epub 2018 Apr 16.
Little work has tested how emotion regulation (ER) processes influence children's memory for negative experiences. We investigated how two intrapersonal ER processes (affect-biased attention and changes in negative feelings) predicted children's (N = 184, 93 girls, ages 3-11) memory. Recall of a sad or scary film was tested after a delay. The way discrete emotional information was remembered varied with ER and children's age. Older children with greater affect-biased attention or less reduction of fear demonstrated privileged memory for central information from the scary film. Older children with greater affect-biased attention but greater reductions in sadness recalled more from the sad film overall. Findings suggest ER processes should be considered when examining children's memory for negative emotional information.
鲜有研究检验情绪调节（ER）过程如何影响儿童对负面经历的记忆。我们探究了两种内在的 ER 过程（情绪偏向注意和负性情绪变化）如何预测儿童（N=184，女 93 名，年龄 3-11 岁）的记忆。在延迟后测试他们对悲伤或恐怖电影的回忆。离散的情绪信息的记忆方式因 ER 和儿童年龄而异。具有更大情绪偏向注意或恐惧减少较少的较大儿童对恐怖电影的中心信息具有特权记忆。具有更大情绪偏向注意但悲伤减少更多的较大儿童总体上回忆起更多悲伤电影的内容。研究结果表明，在考察儿童对负面情绪信息的记忆时，应考虑 ER 过程。
