Psychology
Social and Emotional Development Theories
Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
This article focuses on social and emotional development in young children. In the first section, several definitions of emotion and brief descriptions of widely held theories of early emotional development are presented. Next, important universal milestones in emotional and social development are reviewed following their developmental sequence. Additionally, temperament is presented as a central means of identifying normative individual differences in early social and emotional development. This is followed by a discussion of early emerging social and emotional problem behaviors and their relation to specific risk and protective factors in the young child’s ecology, including family, community, and cultural influences.
Publication Title
Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development
Publication Date
2020
First Page
173
Last Page
182
ISBN
9780128165126
DOI
10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.23633-X
Keywords
cognitive emotions theory, discrete emotions theory, ecology, emotional milestones, ethology, functionalist approaches, protective factor, risk factor, scaffolding, social, temperament, zone of proximal development
Repository Citation
Heberle, Amy E.; Thomann, Catharine R.B.; and Carter, Alice S., "Social and Emotional Development Theories" (2020). Psychology. 515.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_psychology/515
