Thompson R A
Center on Children, Families, and the Law, University of Nebraska.
Monogr Soc Res Child Dev. 1994;59(2-3):25-52.
Contemporary interest in emotion regulation promises to advance important new views of emotional development as well as offering applications to developmental psychopathology, but these potential contributions are contingent on developmentalists' attention to some basic definitional issues. This essay offers a perspective on these issues by considering how emotion regulation should be defined, the various components of the management of emotion, how emotion regulation strategies fit into the dynamics of social interaction, and how individual differences in emotion regulation should be conceptualized and measured. In the end, it seems clear that emotion regulation is a conceptual rubric for a remarkable range of developmental processes, each of which may have its own catalysts and control processes. Likewise, individual differences in emotion regulation skills likely have multifaceted origins and are also related in complex ways to the person's emotional goals and the immediate demands of the situation. Assessment approaches that focus on the dynamics of emotion are well suited to elucidating these complex developmental and individual differences. In sum, a challenging research agenda awaits those who enter this promising field of study.
当代对情绪调节的关注有望推动关于情绪发展的重要新观点，并为发展性心理病理学提供应用，但这些潜在贡献取决于发展心理学家对一些基本定义问题的关注。本文通过思考情绪调节应如何定义、情绪管理的各个组成部分、情绪调节策略如何融入社会互动动态，以及情绪调节中的个体差异应如何概念化和测量，来探讨这些问题。最后，很明显情绪调节是一系列显著发展过程的概念框架，每个过程可能都有其自身的催化剂和控制过程。同样，情绪调节技能的个体差异可能有多方面的根源，并且也以复杂的方式与个体的情绪目标和情境的即时需求相关。关注情绪动态的评估方法非常适合阐明这些复杂的发展和个体差异。总之，对于那些进入这个充满希望的研究领域的人来说，一个具有挑战性的研究议程正等待着他们。
