Speaker
Presentation in SpanishMARÍA BALLE CABOT
UNIVERSITY OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS. SPAIN
Maria Balle Cabot holds a degree and PhD in Psychology from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). She has 25 years of research experience and 22 years of teaching experience, combined in her early career with clinical practice in child, adolescent, educational, and family psychology.
Her main research line falls within Developmental Psychopathology, focusing on temperamental factors and emotional regulation processes associated with the development of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. She has been the Principal Investigator of the project Complexity of Emotional Regulation in Adolescents at Risk for Anxiety: A Multimethod and Multilevel Analysis (2016–2020). She is currently co-PI of the Growing Healthy project, focused on developing a digital repository of child psychological information for the study of emotional development and children’s mental health.
In the teaching field, she has taught various subjects within the area of Personality, Psychological Assessment and Treatment in undergraduate and bachelor’s degrees in Psychology, as well as in the Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology at the UIB. She has also served as a consultant for the subjects Child Psychopathology and Clinical Assessment and Intervention in Adults at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
In terms of university governance, she served as Secretary of the Faculty of Psychology from 2016 to 2024 and has been Director of the Master’s in General Health Psychology at UIB since 2020.
Childhood Emotional Regulation in Natural Contexts: Ecological Assessment, Digital Technology, and Multidimensional Indicators
Emotional regulation is a fundamental process for children’s psychological development and their adaptation to everyday demands. However, its study poses significant methodological challenges due to its dynamic, contextual, and multidimensional nature.
This roundtable brings together four contributions that address childhood emotional regulation from complementary perspectives, integrating digital technologies, ecological momentary assessment, and multiple levels of analysis.
The first presentation introduces GrowinApp2, a digital platform designed for the collection, management, and sharing of longitudinal data in child development research. It incorporates ecological momentary assessment tools, open data systems, and resources that facilitate family participation.
The second presentation analyzes emotional regulation dynamics in the daily lives of children aged 6 to 12, highlighting the variability of regulatory processes and the differential role of various strategies in perceived regulatory effectiveness.
The third presentation examines the relationship between negative affectivity, the general psychopathology factor (p-factor), and emotion polyregulation in natural contexts, providing evidence on individual factors associated with emotional intensity and the flexibility of everyday regulatory processes.
Finally, the fourth presentation explores the correspondence between perceived emotional regulation and physiological indicators of autonomic recovery, contributing to a more integrated understanding of regulatory processes in childhood.
Taken together, these studies illustrate the potential of ecological methodologies and digital technologies to advance knowledge of childhood emotional regulation in natural contexts. The findings provide evidence on the everyday dynamics of regulatory processes, the individual factors associated with their functioning, and the relationship between subjective and physiological indicators of emotional regulation, contributing to a broader understanding of emotional development during childhood.
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