2013-01-23
Children's emotional functioning in the preschool period: Emotion recognition, temparament and their links with early risk factors : The Generation R Study
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Het emotionele functioneren van kinderen in de kleuterleeftijd: emotieherkenning, temperament en de relatie met vroegtijdige risicofactoren (het generation R onderzoek)
Emotions are essential aspects of our adaptation to the social and physical environment. All emotions, even the negative ones, have significantly beneficial effects on our behavior, well-being, and adaptation. Conversely, inappropriate and uncontrolled emotional responses are implicated in many forms of psychopathology and even in physical illness. In young children, temperament and the ability to accurately recognize emotional signals are key aspects of emotional functioning. The present thesis examines environmental and genetic correlates of children’s temperament and emotion recognition accuracy in the early preschool years, a period during which temperament begins to stabilize and children develop a solid foundation for the accurate perception and labeling of emotions. All studies included in this thesis were conducted within the context of The Generation R Study, a large-scale population-based prospective child cohort from fetal life onward in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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| The Generation R Study is conducted by the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam in close collaboration with the School of Law and Faculty of Social Sciences of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Rotterdam Homecare Foundation, and the ‘Stichting Trombosedienst & Artsenlaboratorium Rijnmond’ (STAR) in Rotterdam. We gratefully acknowledge the contribution of all participating children and their families, general practitioners, midwives, and pharmacies in Rotterdam. The general design of the Generation R Study is made possible by the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport, and the Ministry of Youth and Families. The development of the MacBrain Face Stimulus Set used in this thesis was overseen by Nim Tottenham, and supported by the John D. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation Research Network on Early Experience and Brain Development. Studies presented in this thesis were conducted at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology of the Erasmus Medical Center – Sophia Children’s Hospital in Rotterdam, and supported by additional grants from the Sophia Foundation for Scientific Research (grant no. 514 and 491) and the ZonMw (grant no. 10.000.1003). Further financial support for the publication of this thesis was provided by the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, the Generation R Study, and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. | |
| F.C. Verhulst (Frank) , H.W. Tiemeier (Henning) | |
| Erasmus University Rotterdam | |
| hdl.handle.net/1765/38600 | |
| Organisation | Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam |
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Szekely, E. (2013, January 23). Children's emotional functioning in the preschool period: Emotion recognition, temparament and their links with early risk factors : The Generation R Study. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/38600 |
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