Development of Emotion Regulation in Cultural Context

Regulating Emotions: Culture, Social Necessity, and Biological Inheritance

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 83-120

  Trommsdorff, Gisela ^a   Rothbaum, Fred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment and emotion regulation; Emotion regulation development in cultural context; Emotion regulation in cultural context; Emotion regulation process of altering stimuli and modulating responses; Focus on promotion versus prevention goals; Fostering interpersonal versus intrapersonal regulation of emotion; Regulatory behavior striving to achieve certain goals; Socialization and emotion regulation development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889471526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301786.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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