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EMOTION REGULATION: A THEME IN SEARCH OF DEFINITION

EMOTION REGULATION: A THEME IN SEARCH OF DEFINITION 1 am grateful to Alice Ganzel, Megan Gunnar, and Kathy Stansbury for helpful, critical readings of an earlier draft of this essay and to Pamela Cole for stimulating exchanges about these issues. ts NATHAN A. FOX, ED. delay, inhibition, or the pursuit of long-term goals (e.g., Mischel & Mischel, 1983), and the management of stressful experiences at home (Cummings, Pellegrini, Notarius, & Cummings, 1989). In a sense, students of emotional development have moved beyond the realization that discrete emotions are biologically adaptive to the awareness that emotional responses must also be flexible (rather than stereotypical), situationally responsive (rather than rigid), and performance enhancing (rather than over- or underarousing) and must change quickly and effectively in order to adapt to changing conditions if they are to support organized, constructive functioning in higher organisms. This is where emotion regulation processes often enter in. Third, newer portrayals of emotional development also emphasize the socialization of emotion as a significant constituent of emotional development. Through processes ranging from selective reinforcement and modeling of expressions of emotion to emotion-focused discourse, the social context not only fosters greater "emotional competence" (Saarni, 1990) in developing individuals but also channels emotional behavior in directions that meet http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Wiley

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Copyright © 1994 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0037-976X
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1540-5834
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10.1111/j.1540-5834.1994.tb01276.x
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1 am grateful to Alice Ganzel, Megan Gunnar, and Kathy Stansbury for helpful, critical readings of an earlier draft of this essay and to Pamela Cole for stimulating exchanges about these issues. ts NATHAN A. FOX, ED. delay, inhibition, or the pursuit of long-term goals (e.g., Mischel & Mischel, 1983), and the management of stressful experiences at home (Cummings, Pellegrini, Notarius, & Cummings, 1989). In a sense, students of emotional development have moved beyond the realization that discrete emotions are biologically adaptive to the awareness that emotional responses must also be flexible (rather than stereotypical), situationally responsive (rather than rigid), and performance enhancing (rather than over- or underarousing) and must change quickly and effectively in order to adapt to changing conditions if they are to support organized, constructive functioning in higher organisms. This is where emotion regulation processes often enter in. Third, newer portrayals of emotional development also emphasize the socialization of emotion as a significant constituent of emotional development. Through processes ranging from selective reinforcement and modeling of expressions of emotion to emotion-focused discourse, the social context not only fosters greater "emotional competence" (Saarni, 1990) in developing individuals but also channels emotional behavior in directions that meet

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Published: Feb 1, 1994

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