TY - JOUR
T1 - The Relations of Regulation and Emotionality to Children's Externalizing and Internalizing Problem Behavior
AU - Eisenberg, Nancy
AU - Cumberland, Amanda
AU - Spinrad, Tracy
AU - Fabes, Richard
AU - Shepard, Stephanie A.
AU - Reiser, Mark
AU - Murphy, Bridget C.
AU - Losoya, Sandra
AU - Guthrie, Ivanna K.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - The purpose of this study was to examine the relation of different types of negative emotion and regulation and control to 55- to 97-month-olds' internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. Parents and teachers provided information on children's (N = 214) adjustment, dispositional regulation and control, and emotion, and children's regulation was observed during several behavioral tasks. Internalizing was defined in two ways: as social withdrawal (to avoid overlap of items with measures of emotionality) or, more broadly, as anxiety, depression, and psychosomatic complaints. In general, children with externalizing problems, compared with children with internalizing problems and nondisordered children, were more prone to anger, impulsivity, and low regulation. Children with internalizing symptoms were prone to sadness, low attentional regulation, and low impulsivity. Relations between internalizing problems and emotionality were more frequent when the entire internalizing scale was used. Findings suggest that emotion and regulation are associated with adjustment in systematic ways and that there is an important difference between effortful control and less voluntary modes of control.
AB - The purpose of this study was to examine the relation of different types of negative emotion and regulation and control to 55- to 97-month-olds' internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. Parents and teachers provided information on children's (N = 214) adjustment, dispositional regulation and control, and emotion, and children's regulation was observed during several behavioral tasks. Internalizing was defined in two ways: as social withdrawal (to avoid overlap of items with measures of emotionality) or, more broadly, as anxiety, depression, and psychosomatic complaints. In general, children with externalizing problems, compared with children with internalizing problems and nondisordered children, were more prone to anger, impulsivity, and low regulation. Children with internalizing symptoms were prone to sadness, low attentional regulation, and low impulsivity. Relations between internalizing problems and emotionality were more frequent when the entire internalizing scale was used. Findings suggest that emotion and regulation are associated with adjustment in systematic ways and that there is an important difference between effortful control and less voluntary modes of control.
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-8624.00337
DO - 10.1111/1467-8624.00337
M3 - Article
C2 - 11480937
AN - SCOPUS:0035403973
SN - 0009-3920
VL - 72
SP - 1112
EP - 1134
JO - Child development
JF - Child development
IS - 4
ER -