Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in ChildhoodElizabeth L. Davis 1, Parisa Parsafar 1, Laura E. Quiñones-Camacho 1, Emily W. Shih 1
1Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside (UCR)
A detailed protocol for an experimental paradigm to assess the effectiveness with which children regulate emotion is described. Children are randomly assigned to use specific emotion regulation strategies, negative emotions are elicited with film clips, and changes in subsequent psychophysiology index the extent to which emotion regulation is effective.