Journal article
Children's perceptions of emotion regulation strategy effectiveness: links with attachment security
Attachment & human development, Vol.18(4), pp.354-372
07/03/2016
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/110527
PMID: 27121493
Abstract
Six- and nine-year-old children (N = 97) heard illustrated stories evoking anger in a story character and provided evaluations of the effectiveness of eight anger regulation strategies. Half the stories involved the child's mother as social partner and the other half involved a peer. Attachment security was assessed via the Security Scale. Children reported greater effectiveness for seeking support from adults and peers in the peer context than the mother context, but perceived venting as more effective with mothers. Children with higher security scores were more likely to endorse problem solving and less likely to endorse aggression in both social contexts than those with lower security scores. Early evidence for gender differences was found in that boys endorsed the effectiveness of distraction while girls endorsed venting their emotion.
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- Title
- Children's perceptions of emotion regulation strategy effectiveness: links with attachment security
- Creators
- Sara F Waters - Department of Human Development, Washington State University, VancouverRoss A Thompson - Department of Psychology, University of California
- Publication Details
- Attachment & human development, Vol.18(4), pp.354-372
- Academic Unit
- Human Development, Department of
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Grant note
- 201005 / Amini Foundation for the Study of Affects (10.13039/100008789)
- Identifiers
- 99900547477101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article