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Board Games on Emotional Competences for School-Age Children

Dell'Angela, Linda ; Zaharia, Alexandra ; Lobel, Adam ; Vico Begara, Ornella ; Sander, David ; Samson, Andrea C.

In: Games For Health Journal, 2020, vol. 9, no. 3, p. 187-196

Objective: Emotional competences (EC) are important for social and academic outcomes and positive life trajectories. Due to their social setting and tendency to stimulate intrinsic motivation, board games may constitute efficient learning tools for promoting socioemotional development in children. The current project therefore aimed at developing and testing three theory-driven board games...

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Depressive symptoms and emotion regulation strategies in children with and without developmental language disorder : a longitudinal study

den Bedem, Neeltje P. ; Dockrell, Julie E. ; Alphen, Petra M. ; Rooij, Mark ; Samson, Andrea C. ; Harjunen, Elina L. ; Rieffe, Carolien

In: International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018, vol. 53, no. 6, p. 1110-1123

Background: Depressive symptoms are common in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). However, risk and protective factors contributing to these problems are currently underspecified. Aims: The current longitudinal study examined the role of emotion-regulation (ER) strategies in the severity of depressive symptoms in children with and without DLD, taking into account the severity...

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Emotion regulation in autism spectrum disorder : where we are and where we need to go

Cai, Ru Ying ; Richdale, Amanda L. ; Uljarevic, Mirko ; Dissanayake, Cheryl ; Samson, Andrea C.

In: Autism Research, 2018, vol. 11, no. 7, p. 962-978

Emotion dysregulation is a common issue experienced by individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and has been associated with a wide range of negative mental and physical health outcomes. This commentary highlights the role emotion dysregulation plays in ASD by first considering the literature on emotion regulation (ER) in the general population and then summarizing the ER research in...

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Expressive incoherence and alexithymia in autism spectrum disorder

Costa, Andreia P. ; Steffgen, Georges ; Samson, Andrea C.

In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017, vol. 47, p. 1659-1672

Expressive incoherence can be implicated in socio-emotional communicative problems in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The present study examined expressive incoherence in 37 children with ASD and 41 typically developing (TD) children aged 3–13 years old during a frustration task. The role of alexithymia in expressive incoherence was also assessed. Compared to TD children, children with ASD...

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Positive humor in couples as interpersonal emotion regulation : A dyadic study in everyday life on the mediating role of psychological intimacy

Horn, Andrea B. ; Samson, Andrea C. ; Debrot, Anik ; Perrez, Mainrad

In: Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2019, vol. 36, no. 8, p. 2376-2396

The aim of this study was to investigate daily positive humor in couples as an interpersonal emotion regulation strategy. Associated changes in psychological intimacy were tested as a possible socio- affective pathway of emotion regulation that mediates the effects of couple humor on changes in individual momentary affect. Within a dyadic ambulatory assessment framework, 102 couples...

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The interaction of cartoonist's gender and formal features of cartoons

Samson, Andrea C. ; Huber, Oswald

In: Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, 2007, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 1-25