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Published in final edited form as: J Exp Child Psychol. 2011 Jul;109(3):336–352. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.02.007

Table 4.

Child Behavioral Strategy Choice by Frequency of Emotional Responses and Emotion Intensity

	Avoidance	Monitoring	Involvement to Stop Conflict	Attempts to Help
Frequencies	N	N	N	N
Mad	42	6	36	9
Sad	54	20	30	8
Scared	17	6	26	15
Happy	1	1	1	4
Total	85	30	65	25
Emotion Intensity	M (SD)	M (SD)	M (SD)	M (SD)
Mad	1.74 (1.96)	.87 (1.80)	2.37 (2.27)	1.36 (2.04)
Sad	2.31 (1.98)	2.33 (1.92)	1.77 (2.05)	1.04 (1.82)
Scared	.58 (1.27)	.63 (1.50)	1.41 (1.98)	2.12 (2.22)
Happy	.06 (.54)	.13 (.73)	.03 (.25)	.69 (1.67)

Note: Children indicated each emotion experienced with the possibility of endorsing more than one emotion, thus the total number of children endorsing each behavioral strategy does not equal the sum of the emotions experienced. Frequencies reflect the number of children responding affirmatively to the experienced emotion, whereas the emotion intensity reflects the degree to which children felt a given emotion. The total reflects the total number of children, regardless of emotion, endorsing the behavioral strategy.