Through childhood and adolescence, youngsters are learning how to express and regulate
their myriad feelings and understand the emotions of self and others. They are acquiring …

Recent research highlights the key role that emotional processes and competencies play in
both normal and atypical development [1]. In this chapter, we begin with a review of the …

Emotional competence–expressing, understanding, and regulating emotions in an adaptive
manner–is crucial in its own right, and for young children's social and preacademic …

Synthesizing the latest research and theory with compelling narratives and case vignettes,
this book explores the development of emotional competence in school-age children and …

This review details the developmental progression of emotional competence from preschool
age through middle childhood, and provides extant evidence for its relation to social …

This article articulates the central role school psychologists can play in enhancing the
emotional competence of students. An overview of the theoretical basis of emotional …

Young children's emotional competence—regulation of emotional expressiveness and
experience when necessary, and knowledge of their own and other's emotions—is crucial …

As other contributions to this book make clear, there are at least two distinct
conceptualizations of EI. Mayer and Salovey (1997) have developed an approach …

Preschoolers'(N= 143) patterns of emotional expressiveness, emotion regulation, and
emotion knowledge were assessed. Their contributions to social competence, as evidenced …

Highlights•Affective social competence (ASC) is a key concern for developmental
psychologists.•Three main areas of ASC are:(a) emotional experience,(b) communication,(c) …