Temperamental Surgency and Emotion Regulation as Predictors of Childhood Social Competence

Autor/inn/en	Dollar, Jessica M.; Stifter, Cynthia A.
Titel	Temperamental Surgency and Emotion Regulation as Predictors of Childhood Social Competence
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112 (2012) 2, S.178-194 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2012.02.004
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Laboratories; Grade 1; Interpersonal Competence; Longitudinal Studies; Emotional Response; Social Behavior; Children; Prediction; Aggression; Personality; Child Psychology; Experiments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Laboratory; Laboratorium; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Emotionales Verhalten; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Child; Kind; Kinder; Vorhersage; Personalität; Kinderpsychologie; Erprobung
Abstract	The primary aims of the current study were to longitudinally examine the direct relationship between children's temperamental surgency and social behaviors as well as the moderating role of children's emotion regulation. A total of 90 4.5-year-old children participated in a laboratory visit where children's temperamental surgency was rated by experimenters and children's emotion regulation abilities were assessed. The summer before entry into first grade, children's social behaviors with unfamiliar peers were observed in the laboratory and mothers completed a questionnaire about children's social behaviors. Supporting our hypotheses, results revealed that children high in temperamental surgency developed more negative peer behaviors, whereas children low in temperamental surgency were more likely to develop behavioral wariness with peers. Emotion regulatory behaviors were found to moderate the relation between temperamental surgency and aggression, where high-surgent children who showed high levels of social support seeking were less likely to be rated by their mothers as high in aggression. Furthermore, results revealed that low-surgent children who showed high levels of distraction/self-soothing were more likely to show behavioral wariness around unfamiliar peers, whereas high-surgent children who used more distraction/self-soothing behaviors were rated by their mothers as lower in social competence. (Contains 3 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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