Abstract
AbstractThis chapter highlights recent theoretical and empirical advances in understanding adolescents' emotional and personality development. Models of emotion regulation are viewed as important in uniting research on emotional well‐being and distress, with emotion dysregulation underlying the presence of interalizing and externalizing problems. Recent research on temperament and personality is also highlighted, which examines the structure, origins, and continuity of personality across the early years in the life span. Four exciting themes in research on emotional and personality development in adolescence are discussed, including a focus on adolescents' optimal development, attention to cultural variations in emotion and personality, the integration of knowledge of emotion and temperament, and the use of a person approach to understanding how constellations of emotional and personality characteristics influence adolescents' developmental trajectories. The chapter concludes by drawing attention to how knowledge about emotion and personality promises to aid in the design of intervention and prevention programs that can lead the way toward promoting healthy youth development.
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