K Kwon

Biographic Data

ID36294
NAMEK Kwon
GIVEN NAMESK
FAMILY NAMEKwon
SIGNATUREKWON K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
ORCID0000-0002-9981-0198
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Distraction over reappraisal strategies in interpersonal emotion regulation

    Open AccessBelén Lopéz-Pérez, K Kwon et al.ARTICLECognition & Emotion2026

    Distraction (diversion from the emotional experience) has been suggested as generally less effective than reappraisal (engagement with the emotional experience through cognitive reframing) to change one’s own and others’ emotions. Hence, we examined if a predominant use of distraction over reappraisal in interpersonal emotion regulation can be problematic. In Study 1 (N = 274), we used a difference score to assess individuals’ dominant use of dis…

  • The Role of Rejection Sensitivity and Relational Victimization Within the Friendship Group on Conformity Intentions

    Open AccessCayenne J Predix, A Michele Lease et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Early Adolescence2025References: 6

    The present study investigated the role of rejection sensitivity (i.e., rejection expectancy, anxious anticipation) and exposure to relational victimization within the friendship group in conformity intentions. For 353 fourth and fifth grade students, self-reported friendship groups were used with peer nomination procedures to assess experienced and witnessed relational victimization from friendship group members. Participants completed a rejecti…

  • Divergence of children’s friendships and intrinsic interpersonal emotion regulation

    K Kwon, Theodore S Lentz et al.ARTICLEEmotion2024

    As peers become a major part of children's social life, children seek out and provide support for each other when experiencing strong emotions. We examined children's intrinsic interpersonal emotion regulation (IER; children's emotion regulation support seeking from peers) and extrinsic IER (regulation strategies peers provide to help regulate emotion). We examined the extent to which (a) the peers whom children turn to for intrinsic IER diverge …

  • Cheering my friends up

    Open AccessK Kwon, Belén Lopéz-PérezARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2022References: 53

    A systematic investigation has been lacking regarding children’s deliberate regulation of others’ emotions which is labeled interpersonal emotion regulation (ER). Based on a theoretically derived model of Interpersonal Affect Classification, we examined children’s interpersonal ER strategy use in the peer group. Participants were 398 fourth and fifth grade children from the Midwestern United States. Children rated themselves regarding their use o…

  • Emotion Sharing in Preadolescent Children

    Open AccessK Kwon, Jessica B Willenbrink et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Early Adolescence2021References: 4

    We examined the extent to which children’s emotion-sharing relationships were unique from friendships. We also examined the association between emotional experience and emotion sharing as well as the association between emotion sharing and prosocial behavior. Participants were 456 children ( M age = 10.6 years) from the Midwestern United States. Peer nominations and self-report were used to assess study constructs. Despite considerable convergenc…

  • Self‐report of emotional experience and peer nominations of expressivity

    Open AccessK Kwon, JaNae E Teer et al.ARTICLESocial Development2019References: 7

    We investigated individual differences in self‐reported emotional experience and peer‐perceived expressivity among children in mid‐ to late‐elementary school years. Specifically, we examined the constructs’ correspondence and temporal stability and also compared the degree to which each predicts change in classroom social behavior over 2 years. Participants were 199 children ( M age = 10 years, Time 1) and their classroom teachers who have partic…

  • Peer-Assessed Emotional Expressivity

    Open AccessK Kwon, Jessica B Willenbrink et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Early Adolescence2017Cited by: 2References: 1

    We examined the association between peer-assessed emotional expressivity and children’s status in the peer group after controlling for social behavior. Participants were 417 elementary school children ([Formula: see text] age = 10 years) from a Midwestern urban community and their teachers. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used. After controlling for gender, race, and other emotionality, happiness was positively associated with lika…

  • Perceived influence of close friends, well-liked peers, and popular peers

    Open AccessK Kwon, A Michele LeaseARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2014Cited by: 4References: 36

    This study examined two types of influence (reputational and personal) children perceive from different sources (i.e., close friends, well-liked peers, and popular peers). Participants included 455 third through fifth grade students. A quadratic assignment procedure was used wherein children's peer nominations of the source of influence were correlated with their nominations of the type of influence. Findings suggested that children perceive pers…

  • The Impact of Clique Membership on Children's Social Behavior and Status Nominations

    Open AccessK Kwon, A Michele Lease et al.ARTICLESocial Development2011Cited by: 1References: 18

    The impact of children's clique membership on their peer nominations for social behaviors and status was examined in a sample of 455 third‐ through fifth‐grade children. Social identity theory (SIT) and children's peer group affiliation and context served as primary conceptual frameworks for this investigation. As suggested by SIT, results indicated that children displayed favorable views toward their own cliquemates, nominating cliquemates more …