scholarly journals Self-injury and Smartphone Addiction: Age and gender differences in a community sample of adolescents presenting self-injurious behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 205510292110388
Author(s):  
Elisa Mancinelli ◽  
Ona Sharka ◽  
Tatiana Lai ◽  
Eleonora Sgaravatti ◽  
Silvia Salcuni
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Smartphone Addiction ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Age And Gender Differences ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
And Gender

This study aimed to identify the variables (i.e., internalizing, and externalizing problems, self-control, emotion dysregulation, and alexithymia) relevant for Smartphone Addiction and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), conceptualized as emotion-regulation strategies, also assessing age and gender differences. Based on power analysis, N = 78 Italian adolescents (11–19 years; Mage = 14.24; SD = 1.56; 73.1% females) were considered. Step-wise multivariate linear regressions evidence a mutual association between NSSI and Smartphone Addiction, particularly relevant in pre-adolescence. Low self-control is significantly associated with the Smartphone Addiction, while emotion dysregulation and alexithymia with NSSI. This study supports NSSI and Smartphone Addiction conceptualization as emotion-regulation strategies and the importance of prevention interventions.

Children’s perceptions of the effectiveness of strategies for regulating anger and sadness

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara F. Waters ◽  
Ross A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Early Evidence ◽  
Regulatory Strategies ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
And Gender

Children may be capable of understanding the value of emotion regulation strategies before they can enlist these strategies in emotion-evoking situations. This study was designed to extend understanding of children’s judgment of the efficacy of alternative emotion regulation strategies. Children aged six and nine ( N = 97) were presented with illustrated storyboards of anger- and sadness-evoking situations and rated the effectiveness of eight emotion regulation strategies. Children endorsed some strategies on an emotion-specific basis: they rated problem-solving as more effective for anger, and seeking adult support and venting emotion as more effective for sadness. Younger children rated cognitively sophisticated emotion regulatory strategies comparably to older children, but they endorsed relatively ineffective strategies as more effective. Early evidence of gender differences was also apparent as girls reported emotion-focused strategies as more effective than boys did. These findings contribute to understanding children’s nuanced estimates of the value of alternative strategies of emotion regulation based on emotion context, age, and gender.

scholarly journals Exploiting the Molecular Basis of Age and Gender Differences in Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Infections.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Mercatelli ◽  
Elisabetta Pedace ◽  
Pierangelo Veltri ◽  
Federico M. Giorgi ◽  
Pietro Hiram Guzzi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Age And Gender Differences ◽  
And Gender

Do They Really Mean It? Children’s Inference of Speaker Intentions and the Role of Age and Gender

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-712
Author(s):  
K. Rothermich ◽  
O. Caivano ◽  
L.J. Knoll ◽  
V. Talwar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Video Clip ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Age And Gender Differences ◽  
Speaker Intentions ◽  
And Gender

Interpreting other people’s intentions during communication represents a remarkable challenge for children. Although many studies have examined children’s understanding of, for example, sarcasm, less is known about their interpretation. Using realistic audiovisual scenes, we invited 124 children between 8 and 12 years old to watch video clips of young adults using different speaker intentions. After watching each video clip, children answered questions about the characters and their beliefs, and the perceived friendliness of the speaker. Children’s responses reveal age and gender differences in the ability to interpret speaker belief and social intentions, especially for scenarios conveying teasing and prosocial lies. We found that the ability to infer speaker belief of prosocial lies and to interpret social intentions increases with age. Our results suggest that children at the age of 8 years already show adult-like abilities to understand literal statements, whereas the ability to infer specific social intentions, such as teasing and prosocial lies, is still developing between the age of 8 and 12 years. Moreover, girls performed better in classifying prosocial lies and sarcasm as insincere than boys. The outcomes expand our understanding of how children observe speaker intentions and suggest further research into the development of teasing and prosocial lie interpretation.

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