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Children's Emotion Regulation across and within Nations: A Comparison of Ghanaian, Kenyan, and American Youth
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Morelen, Diana; Zeman, Janice; Perry-Parrish, Carisa; Anderson, Ellen – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
This research examined national, regional, developmental, and gender differences in children's reported management of anger and sadness. Participants (8-15 years) were 103 Ghanaian children from a village setting, 142 Ghanaian children from a middle-class urban context, 106 Kenyan children from an impoverished urban context, and 170 children from…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Urban Areas, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
Emotion Regulation in Children with Anxiety Disorders
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Suveg, Cynthia; Zeman, Janice – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2004
This study examined emotion management skills in addition to the role of emotional intensity and self-efficacy in emotion regulation in 26 children with anxiety disorders (ADs) ages 8 to 12 years and their counterparts without any form of psychopathology. Children completed the Children's Emotion Management Scales (CEMS) and Emotion Regulation…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Self Efficacy, Anxiety, Emotional Response
Emotion Socialization in Families of Children with an Anxiety Disorder
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Suveg, Cynthia; Zeman, Janice; Flannery-Schroeder, Ellen; Cassano, Michael – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2005
Compared emotion socialization in 26 children with anxiety disorders ages 8-12 years and their mothers to 26 nonclinical counterparts without psychopathology. Children and their mothers participated in an emotion interaction task in which they discussed occasions when the child felt worry, sadness, and anger. Responses were coded for length of…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Family Environment, Socialization, Mothers
Children's Strategies for Displaying Anger and Sadness: What Works with Whom?
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Shipman, Kimberly L.; Zeman, Janice; Nesin, April E.; Fitzgerald, Monica – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2003
This study examined the influence of expressive strategies, emotion type, social context, and gender on 144 elementary-school-age children's expectancies regarding interpersonal responses to their emotional expression. Findings indicated that children expected others to respond more positively to verbal and facial strategies than to aggressive…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Aggression, Anger
Social-Contextual Influences on Expectancies for Managing Anger and Sadness: The Transition from Middle Childhood to Adolescence.
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Zeman, Janice; Shipman, Kimberly – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Examined the influence of emotion, audience, gender, and age on fifth, eighth, and eleventh graders' reported emotion management, emotional self-efficacy, and expectancies. Found that eighth graders regulated emotion most and expected the least maternal support. Children expressed greater self-efficacy and regulation for sadness than for anger.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Anger