C: emotional development across the lifespan

Temperament

A set of personality-related behavioral and emotional dispositions.

→ Characteristics differ across infants and babies

Emotion regulation

viewed as cognitive processes controlling emotional processes enabling rational actions

Temperament to personality

distinct but overlapping areas, both seek to explain individual differences in dispositional traits that include emotion related characteristic.

Adversity

(a difficult or unpleasant situation) is in the mind of the beholder and circumstances that are generally perceived as adverse (e.g. low income) can affect different people in different ways.

Environmental sensitivity

adverse circumstances do not affect all individuals the same, similarly not all individuals benefit from the same high-quality environments

DSM-5

makes obvious the key role that emotions play in psychological maladjustment

Anxiety

While fear and anxiety are normal, they become pathological when they cause significant distress, impair functioning, or interfere with typical developmental tasks.

Callous unemotionality (CU)

A subtype of Conduct Disorder (CD) characterized by a lack of empathy, concern for others, and focus on self-interest