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Dec 26, 2023 · The following examples are major markers of change in emotional development as they occur within a social context. Social smile (2 to 3 months) While breastfeeding, the infant shares a gaze with mom. Mom responds with a smile using infant-directed speech. “You are a hungry little fellow!”.
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- Infancy
- Toddlerhood and early childhood
- Middle and late childhood
emotional development, emergence of the experience, expression, understanding, and regulation of emotions from birth and the growth and change in these capacities throughout childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The development of emotions occurs in conjunction with neural, cognitive, and behavioral development and emerges within a particular soci...
The expression of emotions during infancy promotes the transition from complete dependency to autonomy. The expression of interest promotes exploration and cognitive development. Social (intentional) smiles and other expressions of joy promote social interaction and healthy attachment relationships with primary caregivers. The expression of sadness encourages empathy and helping behaviour, and the expression of anger signals protest and discomfort. Infants’ unique tendency to experience and express particular emotions and the threshold for expressing those emotions is usually referred to as their temperament or characteristic emotionality.
Researchers generally agree that neonatal (nonintentional) smiles are present at birth and that social smiling and emotional expressions of interest appear as early as six weeks of age. By four to five months of age, infants selectively smile at familiar faces and at other infants, and their caregivers begin to share positive emotional exchanges with them.
Researchers disagree in their explanations of the development and time of emergence of discrete negative emotional expressions. Consistently with the view that infants express negative emotions in early infancy, scientists have shown that infants perceive and respond differentially to the negative emotional expressions (e.g., sadness, anger) of others by the age of four months.
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During the second six months of life, as infants gain rudimentary cognitive and memory capacities, they begin to express particular emotions based on context. Emotions begin to emerge dynamically as the infant begins to take a more direct role in emotional exchanges with caregivers. The emotional bond with the caregiver is increasingly important, as infants seek support for exploration and look for signals of danger.
During the toddler period, in conjunction with rapid maturation of the frontal lobes and the limbic circuit in the brain, recognition of the self emerges. As a result, the toddler strives to become more independent, and the expression of anger and defiance increases in that struggle for autonomy. The ability to differentiate the self from others also promotes basic empathetic behaviour and moral understanding. By the end of the second year of life, toddlers respond to negative signals from others, and they have specific emotional responses to their own negative actions. The emotions that emerge with a rudimentary conception of the self are often called self-conscious emotions and include shame, embarrassment, guilt, and pride. Some self-conscious emotions, such as pride and guilt, do not emerge until toddlers and young children have learned to conceptualize internalized standards of behaviour.
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As children enter preschool, they begin to label their own emotions and rely on discourse about emotions within the family to facilitate their understanding of basic emotions. Young children first distinguish happiness from negative emotions and then begin to distinguish negative emotions such as sadness, anger, and fear from each other. They begin to recognize these emotions in facial expressions, and then, as they enter middle childhood, they begin to understand situational determinants of emotions. An understanding of emotional subjectivity also develops as children learn that what makes one child happy may not make another child feel the same way.
During middle and late childhood, stable self-concepts based on the child’s typical emotional experiences emerge. With the increased capacity for self-reflection, children gain an understanding of their self-conscious emotions. As a result, the consistent experience of patterns of self-conscious emotions has an impact on the child’s self-concept. For example, the tendency to experience shame rather than guilt in response to negative transgressions affects the child’s emergent self-esteem and may encourage a tendency to respond with aggression or violence.
Also during middle and late childhood, children begin to understand that a single situation or event can lead to the experience of multiple, mixed emotions. For example, older children understand that a goodbye party for a sibling who will leave for college is likely to be both a happy and a sad event for the child and his sibling. This capacity likely emerges with the cognitive capacity to understand multiple aspects of a situation, called decentration.
Mar 3, 2021 · See if you can relate to these 12 emotional stages: 1. Anxiety. You don’t really know what’s going to happen next, and you aren’t sure what any change will really look like at this point. 2. Happiness. You are feeling really good about the change as this will be the chance to get rid of things, systems and processes which you know don’t ...
- Precontemplation. Denial. Ignorance of the problem. Strategies. Rethink your behavior. Analyze yourself and your actions. Assess risks of current behavior.
- Contemplation. Ambivalence. Conflicted emotions. Strategies. Weigh pros and cons of behavior change. Confirm readiness and ability to change.
- Preparation. Experimenting with small changes. Collecting information about change. Strategies. Write down your goals. Prepare a plan of action.
- Action. Direct action toward a goal. Strategies. Reward your successes. Seek out social support. During the fourth stage of change, people begin taking direct action to accomplish their goals.
Sep 20, 2019 · Posted September 20, 2019. Emotional transitions are lifelong processes—internal reconfigurations in response to external change. Change, whether positive or negative, causes attitudinal shifts....
[1] The cycle has five stages, shown in figure 1 below. Stage 1: Uninformed optimism. Stage 2: Informed pessimism. Stage 3: Hopeful realism. Stage 4: Informed optimism. Stage 5: Completion. Figure 1 – The Emotional Cycle of Change. List and image from "Change Thinking," by Daryl Conner. © 2012 Conner Partners. Used with permission.
Dec 31, 2018 · Summary. Changes at work can be emotionally intense. It often leads to burnout and puts into motion an insidious cycle that leads to even greater resistance to organizational change. Improving your...
