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Executive Control and Emotion Regulation in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2022) | Viewed by 8005

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Daniel Adrover-Roig

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Guest Editor
Universitat de les Illes Balears, 07122 Palma, Illes Balears, Spain
Interests: cognitive development; bilingualism; executive control; bullying and victimization
Dr. Eva Aguilar Mediavilla

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Department of Applied Pedagogy and Educational Psychology, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Illes Balears, 07122 Palma, Spain
Interests: language development; bilingual acquisition; phonological acquisition; developmental language disorder; language assessment; bullying
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Dr. Raúl López Penadés

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Assistant Guest Editor
Universitat de les Illes Balears, 07122 Palma, Illes Balears, Spain
Interests: psychopathology; emotion regulation; psychophysiological response; personality

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The present Special Issue aims to publish studies on executive control (EC), emotion regulation (ER), and their associations. The literature on EC defines it as a class of controlled cognitive processes that allows for the accomplishment of current task goals, including focusing attention on task-relevant information and inhibiting irrelevant information. Researchers have proposed that processes of EC can support ER and vice-versa. A maladaptive pattern of ER, or a dysfunctional capacity for EC, which involves a failure to regulate or interfere with adaptive functioning, can cause serious problems that hamper well-being and everyday functioning. In this way, youngsters with an adequate ER are better able to maintain greater social commitment, to solve problems efficiently, and to communicate more effectively, which enables satisfactory social relationships and proper socio-emotional development. Thus, a balanced relationship between EC and ER can affect a wide array of children’s and adolescent’s lives and is crucial for adequate psychological, emotional, cognitive, and social adjustment.

This Special Issue aims to bring together studies that explore EC, ER, and their mutual connections, and other potential variables that illustrate this association with children’s, adolescents’ and young adults’ well-being, such as conduct problems or even peer victimization.

This Special Issue is open to any research addressing a health perspective from a psychological and/or educational point of view that includes theoretical and empirical studies on executive control abilities and emotion regulation.

Dr. Daniel Adrover-Roig
Dr. Eva Aguilar Mediavilla
Dr. Raúl López Penadés
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Executive control
  • Emotion regulation
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Early life (risk) factors
  • Mental health
  • Children, adolescents, and young adults
  • Family factors
  • Environment
  • Behavioral problems
  • Cognitive development

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Selective Inhibitory Control in Middle Childhood
by Irene Rincón-Pérez, Alberto J. Sánchez-Carmona, Susana Arroyo-Lozano, Carlos García-Rubio, José Antonio Hinojosa, Alberto Fernández-Jaén, Sara López-Martín and Jacobo Albert
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(12), 6300; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126300 - 10 Jun 2021
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The main aim of this study was to investigate the development of selective inhibitory control in middle childhood, a critical period for the maturation of inhibition-related processes. To this end, 64 children aged 6–7 and 56 children aged 10–11 performed a stimulus-selective stop-signal [...] Read more.
The main aim of this study was to investigate the development of selective inhibitory control in middle childhood, a critical period for the maturation of inhibition-related processes. To this end, 64 children aged 6–7 and 56 children aged 10–11 performed a stimulus-selective stop-signal task, which allowed us to estimate not only the efficiency of response inhibition (the stop-signal reaction time or SSRT), but also the strategy adopted by participants to achieve task demands. We found that the adoption of a non-selective (global) strategy characterized by stopping indiscriminately to all stimuli decreased in older children, so that most of them were able to interrupt their ongoing responses selectively at the end of middle childhood. Moreover, compared to younger children, older children were more efficient in their ability to cancel an initiated response (indexed by a shorter SSRT), regardless of which strategy they used. Additionally, we found improvements in other forms of impulsivity, such as the control of premature responding (waiting impulsivity), and attentional-related processes, such as intra-individual variability and distractibility. The present results suggest that middle childhood represents a milestone in the development of crucial aspects of inhibitory control, including selective stopping. Full article
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Emotion Regulation Style and Daily Rumination: Potential Mediators between Affect and Both Depression and Anxiety during Adolescence
by Neus Zuzama, Aina Fiol-Veny, Josep Roman-Juan and Maria Balle
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(18), 6614; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186614 - 11 Sep 2020
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Adolescence is a vulnerable period for depressive and anxious symptom development, and emotion regulation (ER) may be one mechanism linking temperament—i.e., positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA)—with such symptomatology. Rumination is a common ER strategy that is traditionally assessed using self-reported questionnaires, [...] Read more.
Adolescence is a vulnerable period for depressive and anxious symptom development, and emotion regulation (ER) may be one mechanism linking temperament—i.e., positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA)—with such symptomatology. Rumination is a common ER strategy that is traditionally assessed using self-reported questionnaires, but it would also be interesting to examine it with an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) approach. Sixty-five adolescents (Mage = 14.69; SDage = 0.82; range = 14–17 years old; 53.80% girls) completed self-report measures of temperament, ER style, depression and anxiety, and underwent an EMA to investigate rumination use. Results revealed that negative ER style and rumination use mediated the relationship between NA and depression, while only rumination use mediated the relationship between PA and depression. Moreover, NA contributed to increase anxiety, but negative ER style did not significantly mediate this relationship. Rumination use also had no effect on anxiety. This study provides further support for the relationship between temperament, ER, and internalizing problems. It seems that both a negative ER style and rumination use mediate the relationship between NA and depression whereas only NA had a significant direct effect on anxiety. Furthermore, PA buffered the effect of rumination use on depression in this study. Full article
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