Individual Differences in Trajectories of Emotion Regulation Processes: The Effects of Maternal Depressive Symptomatology and Children's Physiological Regulation

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1110-1123

  Blandon, Alysia Y ^a   Calkins, Susan D ^a   Keane, Susan P ^a   O'Brien, Marion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion regulation and reactivity; maternal depressive symptomatology; respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROL; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIALIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VAGUS NERVE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AROUSAL; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PARENTING; RISK FACTORS; SOCIALIZATION; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 47249115834     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.4.1110     Document Type: Article

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