From Toddler to Early Adolescent Emotion Regulation Strategies

Conditions

• Emotion Regulation

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

10 Years - 15 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Accepted

Interventions

• Laboratory tasks in early adolescence — BEHAVIORAL
  Children will watch a 2-minute clip from a live-action movie and complete Storytelling and Mask tasks from the Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery.

Study Details

This study will examine the relation between behavioral emotion regulation (ER) strategies at toddler age 3 to cognitive ER strategies in early adolescence as part of an ongoing longitudinal study of children's typical development. Aim 1 is to test whether self-soothing/caregiver-focused and distraction behavioral ER strategies at child age 3 predict avoidant and engaging cognitive ER strategies, respectively, at a follow-up assessment to be completed when children are 10-15 years old. In a completed wave of data collection, children's ER behaviors were elicited in laboratory tasks characterized by threat (novelty and uncertainty) at age 3. Avoidant and engaged cognitive ER strategies will be assessed by youth self-report, parent-report, and interviews with youth after they engage in new laboratory tasks characterized by mild threat. Hypothesis 1a: Self-soothing/caregiver-focused toddler behavioral ER strategies will predict avoidant cognitive strategies in early adolescence. Hypothesis 1b: The toddler behavioral ER strategy of distraction will predict engaged cognitive ER strategies in early adolescence. To provide additional developmental information, Aim 2 is to test whether child age at the follow up assessment (ranging 10-15 years) moderates the relation between behavioral ER strategies at age 3 and cognitive emotion regulatory strategies in early adolescence. Hypothesis 2: Because older children will have undergone more development underlying cognitive ER strategies, relations specified in Hypotheses 1a and 1b will strengthen across older ages. Finally, the Exploratory Aim is to test theoretically-supported individual (i.e., inhibited/fearful temperament) and environmental (i.e., family emotional environment) variables as potential mediators or moderators of the relation between behavioral ER strategies at age 3 and cognitive ER strategies in early adolescence. The investigators expect inhibited/fearful temperament to be involved in the link between behavioral ER strategies and avoidant cognitive ER strategies. The investigators expect the emotional family environment to be involved in linking behavioral ER strategies to both avoidant and engaged ER strategies.

Key Dates

Start date

Oct 23, 2023

Status verified

Jul 2025

Primary completion

Sep 1, 2026

Completion

Sep 1, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment

204 participants (estimated)

Allocation

NA

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Arms

• Other: Emotion regulation observation in early adolescence
  All children will experience brief standardized laboratory tasks according to the same protocol.

Primary Outcome Measure

Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents [ Time Frame: 3 minutes (at 1.5 hour laboratory visit) ]

Locations (1)

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