Emotional Development in Infancy PDF

Emotional Development in Infancy March 13, 2024 Week 10, lecture 2 Chapter 10 1 Emotional Competence capable of new and more complex emotions and relationships with others and develop a greater sense of self-understanding, social awareness, and selfmanagement. 2 Emotional Development in Infancy: Inf...

Emotional Development in Infancy March 13, 2024 Week 10, lecture 2 Chapter 10 1 Emotional Competence capable of new and more complex emotions and relationships with others and develop a greater sense of self-understanding, social awareness, and selfmanagement. 2 Emotional Development in Infancy: Infants’ Emotional Experience At birth: interest, distress, disgust, contentment Disgust Interest 3 Emotional Development in Infancy: Infants’ Emotional Experience Between 2 and 7 months display basic emotions: anger, sadness, joy, surprise, and fear Conditions that elicit emotions – Social Smile: smile in response to seeing familiar people 4 Emotional Development in Infancy: Infants’ Emotional Experience Self-conscious Emotions: depend on cognitive development and awareness of self – For example: empathy, pride, embarrassment, shame, guilt – Emerge around 15–18 months 5 Emotion Regulation Emotion Regulation: ability to control one’s emotions Emotion regulation strategies in infancy and toddlerhood Vocabulary is associated with self regulation 6 Emotional Development in Infancy: Social Interaction and Emotional Development Parental Interaction: – Techniques to help infants learn to manage emotions – Maladaptive social contexts - The reciprocal interactions between mothers and infants can have long-term effects on maternal depression 7 Reciprocal relationships between maternal depression and infants’ negative reactions Session 1: 3-6 months (BM depressive symptoms) Session 2: 9 months (AM depressive symptoms) Session 3: 18 months (AM depressive symptoms & Parent-Child Teaching task) Session 4: 27 months (AM depressive symptoms) Roben et al., 2015 Reciprocal relationships between maternal depression and infants’ negative reactions Session 1: 3-6 months (BM depressive symptoms) Session 2: 9 months (AM depressive symptoms) Session 3: 18 months (AM depressive symptoms & Parent-Child Teaching task) Session 4: 27 months (AM depressive symptoms) Roben et al., 2015 Emotional Development in Infancy: Social Interaction and Emotional Development Interactive Play: Face-to-face play is important to manage emotions Development of motor skills and emotions Social Referencing : Innately prepared to attend to facial displays of emotion Social referencing: tendency to look to caregivers’ or other adults’ emotional expressions to find clues for how to interpret ambiguous events Particularly challenging when mothers experience postpartum depression (clinical depression with onset following childbirth) 10 Emotional Development in Infancy: Contextual Influences on Emotional Development Emotional Display Rules: – Specify the circumstances under which various emotions should or should not be expressed – Learned through interaction Stranger Wariness: – Fear of unfamiliar people – Varies depending on temperament, past experience, and situation – Influenced by culture and mother’s anxiety 11 Emotional Development in Childhood: Emotional Understanding Understanding factors that affect emotions Influence of theory of mind Understanding of mixed or conflicting emotions 12 Interacting with others plays an important role in emotional understanding - Pretend play with siblings and peers - Interaction with parents - Three factors can influence emotion understanding - Castro et al., 2015 Emotion Regulation in Childhood Become better able to manage their emotional experience and how emotions are displayed Influenced by advances in cognitive development, theory of mind, and language development 14 Next Class… Emotional Development from childhood to adulthood & Attachment