Emotion regulation involves intrinsic and extrinsic processing of monitoring and modifying emotional reactions in both positive or negative situations (Martins, 2012). In order for individuals to have the ability to regulate emotions, they must beware of their emotions. Although infants are unaware and lack the ability to regulate their emotions, it then becomes the role of a primary carer to nurture the infant, thus acting as a model for regulating emotions. Evidently, infants grow to reflect the…

Emotions & Emotion Regulation Emotions are an integral part of the human condition. They provide an opportunity for human beings to communicate with others as well as to organize their experiences (Santrock, 2014). Emotions involve a complicated process of neurological, physiological, social and psychological processes. The brain processes emotions through the amygdala and hippocampus. As human beings age, emotions are also assessed and controlled through the prefrontal cortex (Santrock, 2014).…

Children’s Depression Inventory Jessica Fonville Psychological Tests and Measurements January 18, 2011 Children’s Depression Inventory The Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI) is an inventory used in testing for affective, cognitive, and behavioral depression in children ages seven to seventeen (Frey, 2003). The inventory is self-reporting, making it a popular method because it is inexpensive and easy. The inventory is also quick to administer, interpret, and score. The inventory is administered…

According to J.J. Gross (2013), Emotion Regulation “studies how individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express them.” Emotion Regulation was becoming an increasingly specialized aspect of psychology that required more research to truly answer the age-old question about how people can attempt to manage their emotions (Gross, 2013). Suppression was assumed to be associated with negative emotions according to John & Gross. They attempted to test…

The article I review addressed the emotion regulation abilities of kindergarteners and how their ability to control their emotions related to the school achievements. The researchers’ goal seemed to be to find out how does emotion and emotion control affect school achievements for kindergarteners. This article also portrays how children’s ability to control their feelings and emotions can have a large effect on the way the relationship between the teacher the student is viewed by the teacher. The…

For this paper I picked a paper that looked at the role of parental emotion withdrawal and the connections that has on toddlers’ emotion regulation development. The article that I picked for this paper was Marital, Parental, and Whole-Family Predictors of Toddlers’ Emotion Regulation: The Role of Parental Emotional Withdrawal by Martin Gallegos, Sarah Murphy, Aprile Benner, Deborah Jacobvitz, and Nancy Hazen. The purpose of this study was to look at the family interactions throughout the transitions…

Emotion regulation is a relatively new field in psychology, having only emerged in the past 25 years. Ever since the early 1990’s, more and more psychologists have become interested in the topic, leading to many studies and articles each year regarding the subject (Gross, 2014). Emotion regulation is the process of being aware and in control of one’s own emotions. It also refers to how or if emotions are expressed or controlled. Suppression is a form of emotion regulation, and is the act of consciously…

Children's Depression Inventory The Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) is a 27 item questionnaire designed to measure the degree of depressive symptoms a child may be experiencing (reviewed by Fránová, Lukavský, and Preiss, 2008). The age group appropriate for the CDI is 7 to 17 years. The 27 items included in the CDI are divided into five subscales: scale A: negative mood; scale B: interpersonal problems; scale C: ineffectiveness; scale D: anhedonia; and scale E: negative self-esteem. The CDI…

Comparing and Contrasting Views of Emotion Regulation Everyone regulates their emotions and some better than others. A majority of the time we do not even realize we are doing so because of a very powerful unconscious. Emotion regulation is a relatively new section of psychology because it has yet to be extensively researched. Such unexplored areas tend to be even a little fuzzy to even the most understanding of researchers. James J. Gross of Stanford University is one of the comparatively…

Emotional regulation is the ability of an individual to influence the experience, expression, intensity, or duration of emotions during an emotionally distressing event (Gross, 1998). The two main emotion regulation strategies are cognitive reappraisal, or reevaluating an emotional situation in order to regulate emotions, and expressive suppression, or restricting the expression of emotions (Gross, 2007). Many researchers agree that the emotion regulation strategy employed most often by an individual…