Emotions and Social Development in Childhood

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 413-433

  Denham, Susanne ^a   Warren, Heather ^a   Von Salisch, Maria ^b   Benga, Oana ^c   Chin, Jui Chih ^d   Geangu, Elena ^e  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children, exhibiting emotion within dyads or groups emotional expressiveness; Developmental tasks of social competence; Emotional experience; Emotions and social development; Emotions and social development in childhood; Expression of emotion and parent child relationships; Model of emotion regulation; Regulation of emotional experience when presence or absence of emotional expression and experience interferes with goals; Three basic components of emotional competence, experiencing, expressing and understanding emotion; Understanding emotions and friendship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860728456     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390933.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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