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Emotional context, maternal behavior and emotion regulation
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This study investigated the importance of emotion-eliciting context (positive and negative)
and mother’s behaviors (constrained and involved) on toddlers’ emotion regulation
behavioral strategies, emotional expressiveness and intensity, during three episodes eliciting
fear, frustration/anger and positive affect. Fifty-five children between 18 and 26 months
of age and their mothers participated in the study. Toddlers’ regulatory strategies varied
as function of emotion-eliciting context (children exhibited behavioral strategies more frequently
during positive affect and frustration/anger episodes and less frequently during fear
episodes) and maternal involvement. Toddlers’ expression of emotion varied as function
of emotion-eliciting context (children exhibited more emotional expressions, both negative
and positive during fear and frustration/anger episodes compared to positive affect
episodes). Toddlers’ expression of emotion was not strongly related to maternal involvement,
however, the intensity of emotional expression was related to the interaction of
context and maternal involvement.
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Emotion regulation Positive and negative affect-contexts Maternal involvement Expressiveness Intensity
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Infant Behavior and Development, 34, 617-626