Department of Psychology.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
Emotion. 2023 Mar;23(2):460-472. doi: 10.1037/emo0001100. Epub 2022 Apr 7.
Previous studies of emotion regulation in young children commonly used between-person approaches, which limit our understanding of dynamic and temporal relations between emotion expressions and strategy use. Further, previous work has mainly focused on temperamental reactivity among White children, and it is unclear whether these findings can generalize to children of Asian and Latinx origins. In the current study, we examined the within-person temporal associations between emotion expressions and strategy use among 3- to 5-year-old children in low-income Chinese American (CA) and Mexican American (MA) families. Children's emotion expressions (positive and negative) and strategy use (gaze aversion, self-soothing, fidgeting, and language) during an unfair social interaction task were coded by 10-s epoch. Executive functions were examined as between-person level predictors of strategy use. Multilevel modeling was conducted to examine whether positive and negative emotion expressions at one epoch (-1) predicted strategy use at the following epoch (t). The results indicate that positive emotion expressions predicted an increase in fidgeting at the next epoch (β = .34, < .01). Executive functions were unrelated to strategy use. Cultural group differences were found: CA children displayed lower intensity of positive emotion and fewer strategy use compared with MA children. The present findings inform theories on the dynamics of emotion regulation in young children and have implications for interventions with underrepresented immigrant populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
先前关于幼儿情绪调节的研究通常采用个体间方法，这限制了我们对情绪表达和策略使用之间动态和时间关系的理解。此外，先前的工作主要集中在白人儿童的气质反应上，目前还不清楚这些发现是否可以推广到亚洲和拉丁裔儿童身上。在当前的研究中，我们考察了低收入美籍华裔（CA）和墨西哥裔美籍（MA）家庭中 3 至 5 岁儿童的个体内情绪表达与策略使用之间的时间关联。通过 10 秒的时间间隔对儿童在不公平社会互动任务中的情绪表达（积极和消极）和策略使用（回避目光、自我安慰、坐立不安和语言）进行编码。执行功能被视为策略使用的个体间水平预测指标。采用多层次模型来检验一个时间间隔（-1）的积极和消极情绪表达是否可以预测下一个时间间隔（t）的策略使用。结果表明，积极的情绪表达预示着下一个时间间隔（β=.34， <.01）坐立不安的行为增加。执行功能与策略使用无关。研究发现了文化群体差异：与 MA 儿童相比，CA 儿童的积极情绪强度较低，策略使用较少。本研究结果为幼儿情绪调节动态理论提供了信息，并对代表性不足的移民群体的干预措施具有启示意义。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2023 APA，保留所有权利）。
