Emotion Regulation and the Early Development of Psychopathology

Regulating Emotions: Culture, Social Necessity, and Biological Inheritance

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 169-188

  Cole, Pamela M ^a   Dennis, Tracy A ^b   Martin, Sarah E ^c   Hall, Sarah E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral techniques and affective neuroscience nature of emotion and emotion regulation; Emotion leading to inappropriate action; Emotion regulation and early development of psychopathology; Emotion regulation how adaptive processes contribute to psychological competence and health; Emotions as adaptive and maladaptive; Moment to moment changes in emotion in context; Predicting child outcomes from individualized patterns of emotion regulation; Specific emotion regulation difficulties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889320178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301786.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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