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LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT10A Topical Approach to

John W. Santrock

Emotional Development


Emotional Development

• Exploring Emotions

• Development of Emotion

• Temperament

• Attachment and Love


What Are Emotions?

• Feeling or affect in a state or interaction characterized by

– Behavioral expression

– Conscious experience

– Physiological arousal

• Positive and negative expressions

Exploring Emotions


What Are Emotions?

Exploring Emotions

• Facial expressions of basic emotions– Biological nature; same across cultures

• When, where, and how to express emotions are not culturally universal

• Biological roots…but shaped by culture and relationships


A Functionalist View of Emotion

• Individuals’ attempts to adapt to specific contextual demands

• Relational

• Linked with an individual’s goals

• Nature of goal can affect experience

Exploring Emotions


Emotional Regulation

• Effectively managing arousal to adapt and reach a goal

– Involves state of alertness or activation

– States can be too high for effective functioning

Development of Emotion


Developing Emotional Regulation

Exploring Emotions

As one ages or matures:

• Regulation shifts from external sources to internal resources

• Cognitive strategies for regulation and ability to shift focus increase

• Ability to effectively cope with stress increases

• Develop greater capacity to modulate emotional arousal

• More adept with age at selecting and managing situations, relationships


Emotional Competence Skills

Exploring Emotions

• Being aware of own emotional states and those of others

• Using appropriate emotional vocabulary

• Having empathic and sympathetic sensitivity to others’ experiences

• Seeing self as feeling like one wants to feel

• Understanding inner emotional states and outer expressions may not correspond

• Adaptively coping with negative emotions

• Being aware that emotional expression plays major role in relationships


Early Developmental Changes In Emotions


• Primary emotions

– Present in humans and other animals

– Appear in first six months of life

– Surprise, joy, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust

• Self-conscious emotions

– Appear in first 18 months to 2 years

– Acquire and use society’s standards and rules

– Empathy, jealousy, and embarrassment


Infant Crying


• Basic cry– Rhythmic pattern usually consisting of cry, briefer

silence, shorter inspiratory whistle, and brief rest

• Anger cry– Similar to basic cry, linked to exasperation or rage,

with more excess air forced through vocal chords

• Pain cry

– Sudden appearance of loud crying, no preliminary moaning; stimulated by high-intensity stimulus


Infant Smiling

• Reflexive smile – Does not occur in response to external stimuli – Occurs during first month after birth, usually

during sleep

• Social smile – Response to external stimulus– Occurs about 2 or 3 months of age – Typically in response to a face



Fear

• First appears about 6 mos.; peaks at 18 mos.

• Stranger anxiety — infant’s fear and wariness of strangers; intense between 9 and 12 mos.

– Affected by social context, stranger’s characteristics– Individual variations

• Separation protest — crying when caregiver leaves; peaks about 15 months of age



Separation Protest in Four Cultures


Fig. 10.3


Social Referencing

• “Reading” emotional cues in others to help determine how to act in a specific situation

• Ability improves in second year of life

• Many 14- to 22-month-olds look at mother’s face as source



Emotional Regulation and Coping

• Infants use self-soothing strategies for coping

• Later in infancy, attention is redirected or infant uses distraction to cope

• By age 2, toddlers use language

• Contexts influence emotional regulation



Early Childhood

• Young children experience many emotions

• Self-Conscious Emotions

– Pride, shame, and guilt

– First appear about age 2½

– Gender and behavioral differences exist

– Ability to reflect on emotions increases with age

– Emotional regulation affects peer relations



Developmental Changes In Emotions During Middle and Late Childhood


• Increased ability to understand pride and shame

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• Increased awareness that more than one emotion can be experienced in a particular situation

• Increased tendency to take fuller account of events leading to emotional reactions

• Marked improvements in ability to suppress or conceal negative emotional reactions

• Use of self-initiated strategies for redirecting feelings


Adolescence

• Time of emotional turmoil but not constantly

• Emotional changes instantly occur with little provocation

– Girls more vulnerable to depression

– Adolescent moodiness is normal

– Hormonal changes and environmental experiences involved in changing emotions



Self-Reported Extremes of Emotions by Adolescents and their Parents


Fig. 10.6


Adulthood

• Adapt more effectively when emotionally intelligent

• Developmental changes in emotion continue through adult years

• Older adults have more positive emotions, report better control of emotions



Changes in Positive & Negative Emotion Across the Adult Years


Fig. 10.7


Socio-emotional Selectivity Theory

• Older adults become more selective about their social networks

– Place a high value on emotional satisfaction and maximize positive emotional experiences

– Spend more time with familiar individuals providing rewarding relationships

– Seek more emotion-related goals than knowledge-related goals



Model of Socio-emotional Selectivity


Fig. 10.8


Temperament

• Individual’s behavioral style and characteristic way of emotional response

– Closely linked to personality

• Rothbart and Bates’ Classification

– Extraversion urgency

– Negative affectivity

– Effortful control (self-regulation)

Temperament


Chess and Thomas’ Classification

• Three basic types or clusters

– Easy child: positive mood; quickly establishes routines; adapts easily to new experiences

– Difficult child: reacts negatively; cries frequently; has irregular routines; slow to accept new experiences

– Slow-to-warm-up child: low activity level; somewhat negative; shows low adaptability; displays low-intensity mood

Temperament


Kagan’s Behavioral Inhibition

• Differences between children

– Shy, subdued, and timid

– Sociable, extraverted, bold

• Inhibition shows considerable stability from infancy through early childhood

Temperament


Biological Foundations and Experience

• Physiological characteristics are associated with different temperaments

• Heredity is aspect of temperament’s biological foundations

• Attributes become more stable over time as self-perceptions, behavioral preferences, and social experiences form personality

Temperament


Developmental Connections

Temperament

Child Adult

Easy temperament Good adjustment

Difficult temperamentAdjustment, school, and

marital problems

InhibitionLow assertiveness, job

and school delays

Good emotional control Good emotional control


Developmental Contexts

• Gender may be important factor that influences fate of temperament

• Many aspects of child’s environment encourage or discourage persistence of temperament characteristics

• Goodness of Fit– Match between child’s temperament and

environmental demands

Temperament


Parenting and Child’s Temperament

• Some temperament characteristics pose more challenges than others

• Management strategies that worked for one child may not work for next one

– Be sensitive to individual characteristics of child

– Structure the child’s environment to provide as good a fit as possible with child’s temperament

– Avoid labeling as “difficult child”

Temperament


Theories of Attachment

• Attachment — close emotional bond between two people

• Freud — infants attach to person or object providing oral satisfaction

– Harlow’s study proved otherwise

Attachment and Love


Theories of Attachment

• Erikson — first year of life is key time for attachment development

– Sense of trust or mistrust sets later expectations

• Bowlby — stresses importance of attachment in first year and responsiveness of caregiver

– Four phases of attachment in first 2 years

Attachment and Love


Individual Differences and the Strange Situation

• Ainsworth’s measure of infant attachment to caregiver

– Requires infant to move through a series of introductions, separations, and reunions

– Some infants have more positive attachments than others

Attachment and Love


Attachment Categories

Attachment and Love

Insecure disorganized

Securely attached

Insecure avoidant

Insecure resistant

Shows insecurity by being disorganized, disoriented

Caregiver is secure base to explore environment from

Shows insecurity by avoiding the caregiver

Clings to caregiver, then resists by fighting against

the closeness


The Significance of Attachment

• Secure attachment in first year is important foundation for psychological development

• Some developmentalists believe too much emphasis on attachment bond in infancy

– Ignores the diversity of socializing agents and contexts that exists in an infant’s world

– Ignores that infants are highly resilient and adaptive

Attachment and Love


Caregiving Styles and Attachment Classification

Attachment and Love

Baby’s Attachment Caregiver Behavior

Secure Sensitive to signals, available

Avoidant Unavailable or rejecting

Resistant Inconsistent

Disorganized Neglect or physically abuse


Cross-Cultural Comparison of Attachment

Attachment and Love

Fig. 10.11


Mothers and Fathers as Caregivers

• Maternal interactions usually center on child-care activities

– Feeding

– Changing diapers

– Bathing

• Paternal interactions more likely to include play, engage in rough-and-tumble acts

Attachment and Love


Child Care

• Many parents worry about child’s care

• About 2 million children currently receive formal, licensed child care

• More than 5 million children in kindergarten

• Types of child care vary extensively in U.S.

Attachment and Love


Child Care

• Five types of parental leave from work

– Maternity leave

– Paternity leave

– Parental leave

– Child-rearing leave

– Family leave

• Sweden has most extensive leave policies

Attachment and Love


Child Care

• Child care strategies for parents

– Quality of parenting is key to child’s development

– Make decisions that enhance being good parents

– Monitor child’s development

– Take time to find the best child care

• Child care may harm some children more than others

Attachment and Love


Adolescence

• Attachment to parents– Secure attachment to both parents positively

related to peer and friendship relations

– Dismissing/avoidant attachment: de-emphasize importance due to caregiver rejection

– Preoccupied/ambivalent attachment: insecure adolescent due to inconsistent parenting

– Unresolved/disorganized attachment: insecure adolescent, high fear due to traumatic experiences

Attachment and Love


Dating and Romantic Relationships

• Types of dating and developmental changes

• Dating scripts– Cognitive models that guide dating interactions

• Males are proactive, females are reactive• Males seek physical attraction, females seek

interpersonal qualities

• Emotion and romantic relationships• Sociocultural contexts and dating

Attachment and Love


Age of Onset of Romantic Activity

Fig. 10.12


Attachment in Adulthood

• Adults count on romantic partners to be a secure base to which they can return and obtain comfort, security in stressful times

• Infant attachment style often reflected in adult partnership

Attachment and Love


Romantic Love

• Also called passionate love or eros

– Complex intermingling of emotions

– Strong components of sexuality and infatuation

– Often predominates early part of a love relationship

• Affectionate love or companionate love– Have deep, caring affection for person

Attachment and Love


Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Love

• Theory that love includes three types

– Passion: physical, sexual attraction

– Intimacy: warmth, closeness, and sharing

– Commitment: intent to remain together

Attachment and Love


Sternberg’s Triangle of Love

Fig. 10.14


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