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SUBMITTER: Nozadi SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5989723 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nozadi Sara S SS Spinrad Tracy L TL Johnson Scott P SP Eisenberg Nancy N
Emotion (Washington, D.C.) 20170904 4
The current study examined whether an important temperamental characteristic, effortful control (EC), moderates the associations between dispositional anger and sadness, attention biases, and social functioning in a group of preschool-aged children (N = 77). Preschoolers' attentional biases toward angry and sad facial expressions were assessed using eye-tracking, and we obtained teachers' reports of children's temperament and social functioning. Associations of dispositional anger and sadness wi ...[more]