title: Emotion-focused coping in young children: self and self-regulatory processes.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
authors.forename: Claire B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Kopp
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology*; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D003142:Communication; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012649:Self Concept; D013315:Stress, Psychological