(Not) getting what you want: frustration and emotion regulation in children with sex chromosome trisomies.

ABSTRACT: The presence of an additional X or Y chromosome (sex chromosome trisomies, SCT) is associated with an increased risk for neurodevelopmental difficulties, including socio-emotional problems, across the life span. Studying emotion regulation in young children with SCT could signal deviations in emotional development that serve as risk markers to guide clinical care. This study explored the presence and variety of emotion regulation strategies in 75 SCT children and 81 population-based controls, aged 1-7 years, during a frustration-inducing event in which physiological (heart rate) and observational data (behavioral responses) were collected. Children with SCT were equally physiologically aroused by the event as compared to controls. However, they showed more emotion regulation difficulties i

SUBMITTER: Kuiper K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10235921 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature