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Regulation of emotion after acute pain from 3 to 18 months: a longitudinal study

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Giovanna Axia

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Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, ItalySearch for more papers by this author

Sabrina Bonichini,

Sabrina Bonichini

Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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Giovanna Axia,

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Giovanna Axia

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Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, ItalySearch for more papers by this author

Sabrina Bonichini,

Sabrina Bonichini

Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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First published: 21 December 1998

https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0917(199812)7:4<203::AID-EDP182>3.0.CO;2-F

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The object of this study is the stability of emotional regulation after painful events during early development. Thirty subjects' facial expressions were longitudinally observed at 3, 5, 11 and 18 months for 60 s before and 90 s after a paediatric vaccination. The results confirmed that regulation of pain increases with increasing age. Stability was found between 3 and 5 months, but not between 3 and 11 months, thus suggesting that at 5–6 months, there may be a developmental shift towards better regulation of stress responses. In contrast to the existing literature, Italian infants showed much more sadness than anger during soothing time; they also showed little pain at 18 months. Differences in the medical procedures or maternal soothing strategies may account for differences in soothing between Italian and US samples. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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