scholarly journals Relationship between early language competence and cognitive emotion regulation in adolescence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Louise Griffiths ◽  
Chatrin Suksasilp ◽  
Laura Lucas ◽  
Catherine L. Sebastian ◽  
Courtenay Norbury
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Large Population ◽  
School Entry ◽  
Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽  
Good Mental Health

Background Effective use of cognitive reappraisal strategies for emotion regulation improves throughout adolescence and promotes good mental health. Language skills may partially drive improvements in reappraisal efficacy, meaning children with neurodevelopmental conditions that affect language may not learn to regulate emotions as effectively as their peers. Method Data are from the Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study (SCALES); a large, population derived cohort of children with diverse language and cognitive skills. We tested whether language skills at school entry predicted success in regulating negative emotions at age 10-11 using a temporal distancing strategy, in a task that utilised hypothetical distressing scenarios. We additionally compared children that met the criteria for Language Disorder (LD) in Year 1 to children with typical language, on their temporal distancing performance. Results Across the whole sample (N = 344), language skills at school entry predicted emotion regulation success in Year 6 (β = .23), over and above the concurrent association between language and regulation success. A quarter of children with LD were unable to complete the temporal distancing task. These children had more severe language difficulties, lower non-verbal IQ and more comorbid conditions. There was no evidence that children with LD that could engage in the task were less successful in using the temporal distancing strategy to reduce negative emotions compared to peers with typical language. Discussion There is a longitudinal relationship between language skills at school entry and the ability to use reappraisal for emotion regulation in early adolescence. This suggests that language may help children learn how to effectively regulate their emotions. Many children with LD were unable to participate in the task. This has implications for clinicians addressing mental health needs for children with neurodevelopmental conditions that affect language, as conversations about emotions and emotion regulation are an integral part of therapy.

scholarly journals Relationship between early language competence and cognitive emotion regulation in adolescence

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Griffiths ◽  
Chatrin Suksasilp ◽  
Laura Lucas ◽  
Catherine L. Sebastian ◽  
Courtenay Norbury ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
School Entry ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Good Mental Health ◽  
Language Difficulties

Cognitive emotion regulation improves throughout adolescence and promotes good mental health. Here, we test whether language skills at school entry predict success in emotion regulation in an experimental task at age 10–11, using longitudinal data from the Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study. We additionally compared the performance of children with and without language disorder (LD). Across the whole sample ( N = 344), language skills at school entry predicted emotion regulation success in Year 6 ( β = 0.23), over and above the concurrent association between language and regulation success. There was no evidence that children with LD that could engage in the task were less successful regulators compared to peers with typical language. However, a quarter of children with LD were unable to complete the task. These children had more severe language difficulties, lower non-verbal IQ and more comorbid conditions. This has implications for clinicians addressing mental health needs for children with neurodevelopmental conditions that affect language, as conversations about emotions and emotion regulation are an integral part of therapy. The longitudinal relationship between language skills and the capacity to use temporal distancing for emotion regulation in early adolescence suggests that language may drive improvements in emotion regulation.

scholarly journals Early language competence, but not general cognitive ability, predicts children’s recognition of emotion from facial and vocal cues

PeerJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e9118
Author(s):  
Sarah Griffiths ◽  
Shaun Kok Yew Goh ◽  
Courtenay Fraiser Norbury ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Early Language ◽  
Emotion Identification ◽  
Good Mental Health ◽  
Vocal Emotion ◽  
Emotion Cues

The ability to accurately identify and label emotions in the self and others is crucial for successful social interactions and good mental health. In the current study we tested the longitudinal relationship between early language skills and recognition of facial and vocal emotion cues in a representative UK population cohort with diverse language and cognitive skills (N = 369), including a large sample of children that met criteria for Developmental Language Disorder (DLD, N = 97). Language skills, but not non-verbal cognitive ability, at age 5–6 predicted emotion recognition at age 10–12. Children that met the criteria for DLD showed a large deficit in recognition of facial and vocal emotion cues. The results highlight the importance of language in supporting identification of emotions from non-verbal cues. Impairments in emotion identification may be one mechanism by which language disorder in early childhood predisposes children to later adverse social and mental health outcomes.

scholarly journals Getting On in Gotham: The Midtown Manhattan Study and Putting the “Social” in Psychiatry

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-404
Author(s):  
Matthew Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New York ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
General Hypothesis ◽  
Good Mental Health ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Oral History Interviews

AbstractIn the spring of 1962, a series of alarming headlines greeted American newspaper readers. From “New York Living for Nuts Only” and “One in Five Here Mentally Fit” to “Scratch a New Yorker, and What Do You Find?” and “City Gets Mental Test, Results are Real Crazy,” the stories highlighted the shocking and, to some, incredible statistics that fewer than one in five (18.5%) Manhattanites had good mental health. Approximately a quarter of them had such bad mental health that they were effectively incapacitated, often unable to work or function socially. The headlines were gleaned from Mental Health in the Metropolis (1962), the first major output of the Midtown Manhattan Study, a large-scale, interdisciplinary project that surveyed the mental health of 1660 white Upper East Side residents between the ages of 20 and 59. One of the most significant social psychiatry projects to emerge following the Second World War, the Midtown Manhattan Study endeavored to “test the general hypothesis that biosocial and sociocultural factors leave imprints on mental health which are discernible when viewed from the panoramic perspective provided by a large population.” Despite initial media and academic interest, however, the Midtown Manhattan Study’s findings were soon forgotten, as American psychiatry turned its focus to individual—rather than population—psychopathology, and turned to the brain—rather than the environment—for explanations. Relying on archival sources, contemporary medical and social scientific literature, and oral history interviews, this article explains why the Midtown Manhattan Study failed to become more influential, concluding that its emphasis on the role of social isolation and poverty in mental illness should be taken more seriously today.

scholarly journals Self-Efficacy in Regulating Positive and Negative Emotions

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Gunzenhauser ◽  
Tobias Heikamp ◽  
Maria Gerbino ◽  
Guido Alessandri ◽  
Antje von Suchodoletz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Psychosocial Adjustment ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽  
Gender Invariance ◽  
Partial Invariance

Perceived self-efficacy in emotion regulation facilitates various aspects of psychosocial adjustment. The Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy scale (RESE) by Caprara and Gerbino (2001) measures perceived capabilities to express positive emotions (POS) and to manage negative emotions, namely, despondency/distress (DES) and anger/irritation (ANG). The present research investigated the validity of the RESE scale in Germany. Study 1 investigated the factor structure and convergent validity of the scale in a sample of university students. In order to test the generalizability of findings from Study 1, in Study 2 we studied the factor structure, cross-gender invariance, and convergent validity of a slightly revised version of the scale in a sample of parents. The previously found factor structure was successfully replicated in both samples. Partial invariance on the scalar level was confirmed across gender. All self-efficacy subscales were positively correlated with life satisfaction and with reappraisal (a cognitive emotion regulation strategy). Suppression, a strategy of regulating emotional expression, was negatively related to POS. Findings suggest that the RESE scale is a valid instrument to assess emotion regulation self-efficacy in German-speaking samples.

scholarly journals Cognitive emotion regulation in unaffected offspring of schizophrenic patients

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 4497
Author(s):  
Sudhir Kumar ◽  
Anil Gaur ◽  
Sandhyarani Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Adaptive Coping ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽  
Psychological Issues ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategy ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Suppression Strategy

Background: Schizophrenic patients are reported to use ‘suppression’ strategy for emotion regulation. Milder levels of psychological issues are observed in first degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia. In this study, we examined usage of cognitive emotion regulation strategies associated with negative emotions in offspring of schizophrenic patients.Method: 20 schizophrenic patients and 20 their offspring were sampled. Cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire and depression, stress, anxiety scales were administered on each participant.Results: The results revealed greater usage of adaptive emotion regulation strategies by offspring and negative strategy by schizophrenic patients. However, under conditions of negative emotions, there is significant reduction in the usage of adaptive coping emotion regulation strategy in the offspring.Conclusion: The results implicate need for strengthening adaptive coping mechanisms under vulnerable conditions of emotional turmoil.

scholarly journals The Impact of Intolerance of Uncertainty on Reappraisal and Suppression

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Shu ◽  
Kevin Ochsner ◽  
Elizabeth A. Phelps
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Intolerance Of Uncertainty ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health It ◽  
Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽  
Life Study ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of understanding how attitudes towards uncertainty affect well-being. Intolerance of uncertainty is a trait associated with anxiety, worry, and mood disorders. As adaptive emotion regulation supports well-being and mental health, it is possible that intolerance of uncertainty decreases the capacity to use adaptive emotion regulation and increases the use of maladaptive strategies. However, little research exists on the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and use of cognitive emotion regulation strategies, such as reappraisal and suppression. Study 1 demonstrated that scores on the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale were associated with greater worry related to the COVID-19 pandemic, decreased capacity to implement reappraisal, and greater self-reported use of suppression in daily life. Study 2 provided a preregistered replication of these findings. These results suggest that intolerance of uncertainty may impact mental health by reducing the capacity and tendency to use adaptive emotion regulation.

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