These findings led researchers to conclude that emotion competence skills may be useful intervention targets, especially for children at risk for ADHD.
Emotional competence, or the ability to understand and regulate emotions, was defined by three components:emotion reactivity: arousal, observable expression of emotions, and emotion intensity; and: employing physical, cognitive, or behavioral strategies to respond to emotional situations
In this study, 49 children with and without hyperactive and impulsive symptoms, ages 4-7, completed the affective Posner task to measure responses to frustration. They also completed the 48-item Emotion Matching Task designed to assess emotion understanding. At this time, parents conducted an emotion regulation checklist about their child.
Early emotion lability, frustration, observed negative affect, and difficulties allocating neural resources both during and after frustration foretold later symptoms related to depression, aggression, and
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