Children with Internalizing Problems Struggle to Reappraise Difficult Situations in a Positive

Multiple Choice

Children with internalizing problems struggle to reappraise difficult situations in a positive light, and this contributes to depression and anxiety. This observation was used as evidence for which of the following explanations of emotion-based disorders in children?

A) Emotion-based disorders are due to an imbalance among emotions.
B) Children with emotion-based disorders react to events with atypical emotional responses.
C) Psychological patterns that are viewed as disordered by society actually reflect strategic adaptations to negative environments that children have experienced.
D) Children with emotion-based disorders are poor emotion regulators.