Kown, K and Lopez-Perez, B. (2021) Cheering My Friends up: The Unique Role of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies in Social Competence. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
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Abstract
A systematic investigation has been lacking regarding children’s deliberate regulation of others’ emotions which is labelled interpersonal emotion regulation (ER). Based on a theoretically derived model of Interpersonal Affect Classification (IAC, Niven et al., 2009), we examined children’s interpersonal ER strategy use in the peer group. Participants were 398 4th and 5th grade children from the Midwestern United States. Children rated themselves regarding their use of intrapersonal and interpersonal ER strategies as well as attention to friends’ emotions. Teacher-report and peer nominations were used to assess social competence regarding prosocial behavior and emotion sharing. Awareness of and attention to friends’ emotions were positively and more strongly associated with interpersonal ER than intrapersonal ER. Children reported affective engagement most strongly followed by humor, cognitive engagement, and attention to improve friends’ feelings. Among the four interpersonal ER strategies, only affective engagement was uniquely associated with social competence; intrapersonal ER was not associated with social competence. The findings support the significance of broadening the focus of ER to the interpersonal domain to promote the development of children’s ER and social competence.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | children’ interpersonal emotion regulation, prosocial behavior, social competence, emotion sharing |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Belen Lopez-Perez |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2022 12:37 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2022 12:37 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3468 |
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