motivation to behave in more socially skilled ways. Likely due to such multiple factors, sadness has been positively related to externalizing problems (Eisenberg, Sadovsky, et al., 2005; Lemery et al., 2002; Zeman et al., 2002), although often primarily within context or reporter (e.g., Eisenberg et al., 2001). If theorists are correct that children with externalizing problems encounter more social difficulties with age, one would expect the association between externalizing problems and sadness to increase with age and differences in sadness between children with pure internalizing and those with pure externalizing symptoms to be less evident with age.
