Susanne Denham

Young children's emotional competence-expression of useful emotions, regulation of emotional expressiveness when necessary, and knowledge of internal emotions and emotions of others-contributes to their social and pre-academic competence, both concurrently and across time. Emotional competence is socially constructed and maintained. In the social world of preschoolers, both parents and teachers/caregivers loom large. Researchers have explored the contribution of parental socialization of emo...