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Emotion‐focused coping in young children: Self and self‐regulatory processes
Author(s) -
Kopp Claire B.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.241
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , coping (psychology) , cognitive psychology , clinical psychology
This chapter explores paths toward emotion‐focused coping among typically developing young children and their more or less average parents—portraying characteristic developmental patterns, demands, and stresses. Emotion‐focused coping strategies are effortful and aim to decrease negative emotions in stress‐inducing interpersonal contexts. The themes here highlight developmental changes of the early years and related parent and child hassles; likely cognitive, social, and linguistic antecedents and correlates of emotion‐focused coping; and some self‐regulatory processes that enable coping. The chapter concludes by noting that new directions in the study of young children's coping involve returning to well‐crafted, short‐term longitudinal research.