Pretend Play and the Development of Emotion Regulation in Preschool Children

By Karma T. Galyer, I. Evans. 2001

157 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Jessica Hoffmann
2. M. Colwell
3. Sandra W. Russ
4. Eric W. Lindsey
5. C. E. Wallace
6. Ethan D. Schafer

In Education

1. Sandra W. Russ
2. Jessica Hoffmann
3. M. Colwell
4. Eric W. Lindsey

Citations in the corpus

• Pretend play, creativity, and emotion regulation in children. (2012, background): “Gayler and Evans (2001) hypothesize that pretend play works as a social interaction to enhance children’s abilities to regulate emotion.”
• Pretend and Physical Play: Links to Preschoolers’ Affective Social Competence (2013, background): “Similar associations have been found between pretend play and preschool children’s emotion regulation skills (Galyer & Evans, 2001), and empathic responding to peers (Niec & Russ, 2002).”
• Make-Believe Play: Wellspring for Development of Self-Regulation. (2006, background): “…resolved an experimenter-induced, emotionally arousing make-believe event in a laboratory (a hungry crocodile puppet threatened to eat all the toys) so play could continue were rated by their parents as having more effective emotion-regulation skills in everyday life (Galyer & Evans, 2001).”