Emotional Development

Emotional Display Rules

culturally defined rules specifying which emotions should or should not be expressed under which circumstances

Emotional Self Regulation

the ability to suppress, maintain, or intensify emotional arousal to remain productively engaged with the challenges faced or people encountered

Emotional Competence

• linked to social competence

• the ability to express emotions effectively, accurately recognise others' emotions and the factors influencing them, and regulate one's own emotions.

Emotional Regulation Techniques

• moving themselves away from something that distresses them

• sucking their thumbs

Temperament

a person’s characteristic modes of responding emotionally and behaviourally to environmental events