One can see the likelihood that a temperamental disposition toward emotionality and poor behavioral regulation might well lead to an increasing predilection for emotion-based rash action over time. Emotional, poor-regulated children appear to engage in more ill-considered behavior, and they evoke more negative, controlling behavior from adults and others (Ge, Conger, & Elder, 1996; Ge, Lorenz, & Conger, 1994; O'Connor, Deater-Deckard, & Fulker, 1998). They are more likely to react with strong emotions and accompanying decreased behavioral control to the negative behavior they experience from others (Rothbart, 1989). Thus, a combination of evocative and reactive person-environment transactions likely contributes to the emergence of stable propensities toward emotion-based rash action.
