scholarly journals How do early family systems predict emotion recognition in middle childhood?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Laamanen ◽  
Noona Kiuru ◽  
Marjo Flykt ◽  
Mervi Vänskä ◽  
Jari K. Hietanen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Early Family

scholarly journals Early family system types predict children’s emotional attention biases at school age

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jallu Lindblom ◽  
Mikko J Peltola ◽  
Mervi Vänskä ◽  
Jari K Hietanen ◽  
Anu Laakso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Late Stage ◽  
Family System ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Attentional Biases ◽  
Emotional Faces ◽  
Emotional Attention ◽  
Early Family

The family environment shapes children’s social information processing and emotion regulation. Yet, the long-term effects of early family systems have rarely been studied. This study investigated how family system types predict children’s attentional biases toward facial expressions at the age of 10 years. The participants were 79 children from Cohesive, Disengaged, Enmeshed, and Authoritarian family types based on marital and parental relationship trajectories from pregnancy to the age of 12 months. A dot-probe task was used to assess children’s emotional attention biases toward threatening (angry) and affiliative (happy) faces at the early (500 ms) and late (1250 ms) stages of processing. Situational priming was applied to activate children’s sense of danger or safety. Results showed that children from Cohesive families had an early-stage attentional bias toward threat, whereas children from Enmeshed families had a late-stage bias toward threat. Children from Disengaged families had an early-stage attentional bias toward threat, but showed in addition a late-stage bias away from emotional faces (i.e., both angry and happy). Children from Authoritarian families, in turn, showed a late-stage attentional bias toward emotional faces. Situational priming did not moderate the effects of family system types on children’s attentional biases. The findings confirm the influence of early family systems on the attentional biases, suggesting differences in the emotion regulation strategies children have developed to adapt to their family environments.

Body emotion recognition disproportionately depends on vertical orientations during childhood

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-283
Author(s):  
Benjamin Balas ◽  
Amanda Auen ◽  
Alyson Saville ◽  
Jamie Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Vertical Orientation ◽  
Horizontal Orientation ◽  
Static Images ◽  
Improved Performance

Children’s ability to recognize emotional expressions from faces and bodies develops during childhood. However, the low-level features that support accurate body emotion recognition during development have not been well characterized. This is in marked contrast to facial emotion recognition, which is known to depend upon specific spatial frequency and orientation sub-bands during adulthood, biases that develop during childhood. Here, we examined whether children’s reliance on vertical vs. horizontal orientation energy for recognizing emotional expressions in static images of bodies changed during middle childhood (5 to 10 years old). We found that while children of all ages had an adult-like bias favoring vertical orientation energy, this effect was larger at younger ages. We conclude that in terms of information use, a key feature of the development of emotion recognition is improved performance with sub-optimal features for recognition – that is, learning to use less diagnostic features of the image is a slower process than learning to use more useful features.

scholarly journals Situational Modulation of Emotion Recognition Abilities in Children With Secure and Insecure Attachment: The Role of Gender

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-192
Author(s):  
Leila Mirbagheri ◽  
◽  
Ali Khatibi ◽  
Parisa Seyed Mousavi ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Fearful Faces ◽  
Intensity Rating ◽  
Childhood Attachment ◽  
Iranian Students

Objective: Considering the role of attachment in the emotional development of children, the purpose of this study was to test the situational modulation of emotion recognition in children with secure/insecure attachment with regard to gender in Iranian students. Methods: this casual comparative study was done on a pool of 200 students aged 7-9 years from elementary schools of Tehran, Iran. The participants completed the Middle Childhood Attachment Scale (MCSA), of whom 60 children were assigned to two groups based on their scores on MCAS (secure vs. insecure). They read stories developed to manipulate the attachment schema, and after each story, they were tested for emotion recognition abilities (classification and intensity rating). Happy, sad, angry, and fearful faces were presented and reaction time was recorded using the AFFECT4.0 software. Results: All children irrespective of attachment style, were faster in the identification of others’ emotional expressions in attachment situations than in a neutral situation. Boys made more errors in attachment situations than in the neutral situation, while for girls it did not differ. Among children with secure attachment, boys were faster than girls in recognition of emotion. Conclusion: In terms of attachment theory, attachment styles could have an important impact on the development process of the child’s emotional skills.

scholarly journals Family Alliance in Infancy and Toddlerhood Predicts Social Cognition in Adolescence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hervé Tissot ◽  
Noémie Lapalus ◽  
France Frascarolo ◽  
Jean-Nicolas Despland ◽  
Nicolas Favez
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Growth Curve Models ◽  
Early Family

AbstractInfants developing in a cooperative family alliance (FA), characterized by cohesion and mutual support between family members observable during mother–father–child interactions, will likely experience more affect sharing and empathy early in life. Previous studies showed that these experiences might have a positive impact on the development of social cognition, as the development of FA from 3 to 18 months was shown to predict theory of mind (ToM) competences at age 4.5. This study aimed to extend these results to adolescence, as we hypothesized that higher FA in the postpartum would be linked better social cognition skills at age 15 years. We assessed FA during mother–father–child interactions at 3, 9, and 18 months postpartum (N = 49) and adolescents’ social cognition skills in a computerized emotion recognition task at age 15 years. Results of growth curve models showed that the stable, but not the changing, components of FA from 3 to 18 months, predicted better emotion recognition—particularly for positive emotional expressions—at age 15 years, when controlling for ToM at age 4.5 years. Results are discussed in light of prior research on the links between early family relationships and children’s development from early childhood to adolescence.

scholarly journals Body emotion recognition depends on vertical orientation subbands during middle childhood

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 1409
Author(s):  
Jamie Schmidt ◽  
Amanda Auen ◽  
Benjamin Balas
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Vertical Orientation

scholarly journals Early Family Relationships Predict Children’s Emotion Regulation and Defense Mechanisms

SAGE Open ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401668139
Author(s):  
Jallu Lindblom ◽  
Raija-Leena Punamäki ◽  
Marjo Flykt ◽  
Mervi Vänskä ◽  
Tapio Nummi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Children's Emotion ◽  
Dysfunctional Relationships ◽  
Early Family

Early family relationships have been suggested to influence the development of children’s affect regulation, involving both emotion regulation and defense mechanisms. However, we lack research on the specific family predictors for these two forms of affect regulation, which have been conceptualized to differ in their functions and accessibility to consciousness. Accordingly, we examine how the (a) quality and (b) timing of family relationships during infancy predict child’s later emotion regulation and defense mechanisms. Parents ( N = 703) reported autonomy and intimacy in marital and parenting relationships at the child’s ages of 2 and 12 months, and the child’s use of emotion regulation and immature and neurotic defenses at 7 to 8 years. As hypothesized, the results showed that functional early family relationships predicted children’s efficient emotion regulation, whereas dysfunctional relationships predicted reliance on defense mechanisms in middle childhood. Further, results showed a timing effect for neurotic defenses, partially confirming our hypothesis of early infancy being an especially important period for the development of defense mechanisms. The findings are discussed from the viewpoints of attachment and family dynamics, emotional self-awareness, and sense of security.

scholarly journals From early family systems to internalizing symptoms: The role of emotion regulation and peer relations.

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jallu Lindblom ◽  
Mervi Vänskä ◽  
Marjo Flykt ◽  
Asko Tolvanen ◽  
Aila Tiitinen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Peer Relations ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Internalizing Symptoms ◽  
Early Family
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