Author : Sarah Kahle Kuipers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780355150759
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)
Book Synopsis Linking Autonomic Reactivity and Recovery with Emotion and Emotion Regulation Across Development by : Sarah Kahle Kuipers
Download or read book Linking Autonomic Reactivity and Recovery with Emotion and Emotion Regulation Across Development written by Sarah Kahle Kuipers and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to better understand how emotion processes contribute to children's broader self-regulatory abilities, the interrelations among the multiple components of emotion need to be better understood. While some aspects of emotional events are difficult to observe in young children, such as their cognitive appraisals of emotions, other aspects are more easily observable. Expressions of emotion, attempts to regulate emotions, and physiological changes that may accompany both types of behavior are important aspects of emotional events. However, how these components interact and especially, how they unfold over time, is not well understood. For example, while prior work has emphasized physiological reactivity, little is known about physiological recovery processes in children. Using anger inductions as a context for examining these questions, the present research examined four overarching goals using a longitudinal sample. First, dynamic patterns of autonomic reactivity and recovery in response to anger were documented. At 3.5 years, children showed reactivity in both autonomic branches and low recovery. At 6 years, children showed sympathetic reactivity and strong recovery. Second, these studies examined links between these physiological patterns and individual differences in emotion regulation capabilities. We found that, at 3.5 years, both emotion expressions and emotion regulation were associated with physiology. Regulation strategies that reflected engagement were associated with greater reactivity and recovery, and greater sympathetic recovery was also associated with mother-reported global emotion regulation. In contrast, strategies that reflected disengagement were associated with less reactivity but greater arousal in recovery. Third, we examined whether these links between physiology and emotion behaviors changed with age, and found that disengagement continued to be associated with less autonomic reactivity at 6 years. Fourth, these links were examined longitudinally. Prospective analyses showed that physiological responses at 3.5 years predicted emotion behaviors at 6 years, and vice versa, suggesting that the links between these constructs occur via bidirectional transactions over development. Together, these findings support a complex and multi-faceted model of the development of children's emotion expression and regulation, of which autonomic recovery processes appear to be an important component.