Children's
Emotion Regulation Difficulties Mediate the Association Between Maternal Borderline and Antisocial Symptoms and Youth Behavior Problems Over 1 Year.
Not exact matches
Peer relationship
difficulties and peer rejection are common in youngsters with attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mandating focus on assessment issues, underlying reasons for peer approval and disapproval, links with comorbid aggression, and the
mediating role of sociocognitive mechanisms as well as
emotion regulation strategies.
We expected an indirect effect of beliefs about
emotions on
emotion regulation strategies, and we hypothesized this effect would be
mediated by the unwillingness to remain in contact with aversive private experiences, i.e., experiential avoidance (Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 1999) and by the
difficulties a person experiences in regulating
emotions (Gratz & Roemer, 2004).
The study explored the total, direct and indirect effects of
emotion knowledge on adjustment in preschoolers and examined whether
emotion regulation mediated the relationships between
emotion knowledge and adjustment (social competence, and behavioral
difficulties, such as anxiety — withdrawal and anger — aggression).
Children's
emotion regulation difficulties were hypothesized to
mediate the association between maternal
difficulties with
emotion regulation and children's internalizing and externalizing problems.