Allostasis and metastasis: The yin and yang of childhood self-regulation / Samuel V. WASS in Development and Psychopathology, 35-1 (February 2023)  

Public ISBD [article]  inDevelopment and Psychopathology > 35-1 (February 2023) . - p.179-190 Titre : Allostasis and metastasis: The yin and yang of childhood self-regulation Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Samuel V. WASS, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.179-190 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : attention control  childhood  emotion reactivity  emotion regulation  infancy  self-control  self-regulation Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Most research has studied self-regulation by presenting experimenter-controlled test stimuli and measuring change between baseline and stimulus. In the real world, however, stressors do not flash on and off in a predetermined sequence, and there is no experimenter controlling things. Rather, the real world is continuous and stressful events can occur through self-sustaining interactive chain reactions. Self-regulation is an active process through which we adaptively select which aspects of the social environment we attend to from one moment to the next. Here, we describe this dynamic interactive process by contrasting two mechanisms that underpin it: the ''yin'' and ''yang'' of self-regulation. The first mechanism is allostasis, the dynamical principle underlying self-regulation, through which we compensate for change to maintain homeostasis. This involves upregulating in some situations and downregulating in others. The second mechanism is metastasis, the dynamical principle underling dysregulation. Through metastasis, small initial perturbations can become progressively amplified over time. We contrast these processes at the individual level (i.e., examining moment-to-moment change in one child, considered independently) and also at the inter-personal level (i.e., examining change across a dyad, such as a parent-child dyad). Finally, we discuss practical implications of this approach in improving the self-regulation of emotion and cognition, in typical development and psychopathology. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579421000833 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=499 [article] Allostasis and metastasis: The yin and yang of childhood self-regulation [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Samuel V. WASS, Auteur . - p.179-190. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Development and Psychopathology > 35-1 (February 2023) . - p.179-190 Mots-clés : attention control  childhood  emotion reactivity  emotion regulation  infancy  self-control  self-regulation Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Most research has studied self-regulation by presenting experimenter-controlled test stimuli and measuring change between baseline and stimulus. In the real world, however, stressors do not flash on and off in a predetermined sequence, and there is no experimenter controlling things. Rather, the real world is continuous and stressful events can occur through self-sustaining interactive chain reactions. Self-regulation is an active process through which we adaptively select which aspects of the social environment we attend to from one moment to the next. Here, we describe this dynamic interactive process by contrasting two mechanisms that underpin it: the ''yin'' and ''yang'' of self-regulation. The first mechanism is allostasis, the dynamical principle underlying self-regulation, through which we compensate for change to maintain homeostasis. This involves upregulating in some situations and downregulating in others. The second mechanism is metastasis, the dynamical principle underling dysregulation. Through metastasis, small initial perturbations can become progressively amplified over time. We contrast these processes at the individual level (i.e., examining moment-to-moment change in one child, considered independently) and also at the inter-personal level (i.e., examining change across a dyad, such as a parent-child dyad). Finally, we discuss practical implications of this approach in improving the self-regulation of emotion and cognition, in typical development and psychopathology. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579421000833 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=499

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