title: Emotion regulation and attachment: relationships with children's secure base, during different situational and social contexts in naturalistic settings.
abstract: This study investigated the relationships between children's secure base and emotion regulation, namely their behavioral strategies and emotional expressiveness, during different situational and social contexts in naturalistic settings. Fifty-five children ranging in age from 18 to 26 months of age and their mothers participated in this study. Children were exposed to three situational (fear, positive affect and frustration/anger) and two social (maternal constraint and involvement) contexts. Toddlers' behavioral strategies differed as function of emotion-eliciting context, maternal involvement and attachment quality. Emotional expressiveness varied as function of an interaction involving situational contexts, maternal involvement and children's attachment security.
authors.affiliation: UIPCDE, Unidade de Investigação em Psicologia Cognitiva, do Desenvolvimento e da Educação, ISPA-Instituto Universitário, Lisboa, Portugal. lisa.roque.psychologist@gmail.com
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Roque
authors.forename: Manuela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Veríssimo
authors.forename: Marília
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fernandes
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rebelo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger / Q000502:physiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005190:Family; D005239:Fear / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D009769:Object Attachment; D012931:Social Environment