儿童执行功能与情绪调节

THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND EMOTION REGULATION OF CHILDREN

大脑执行功能是一种调节、控制、综合、分析个体心理过程和外显行为的认知神经机制。儿童的高级认知活动、社会性行为(同伴交往、攻击性行为)都受到执行功能发展水平的制约。研究者希望通过儿童执行功能的发展,了解整个执行系统的发展成熟过程,揭示执行控制机能的内在机制。同时,有研究者把执行控制这种认知神经机制和儿童的社会性行为包括自我控制、情绪调控等方面的发展结合起来研究,从中发现二者的联系。该文就这方面的核心问题以及研究成果进行了综述。

The executive function system can control and regulate person's psychological processes and behaviors. Children's cognitive processes and their emotion and behaviors are also influenced by their executive function. So the development of executive function becomes a focus of developmental psychology. Nowadays, many psychologists try to find out how the children's executive system development and work. They think that we can know more about our brain through this kind of research. For some researchers argue that the executive function will also regulate children's social behaviors, more and more researchers try to integrate children's social behaviors such as self-control and emotion regulation with the executive function. They want to reveal the relation between executive function and emotion regulation. This article summarizes some important productions in this filed.