First, the results have highlighted that parents of AD children are less likely than parents of non-AD children to have
an emotion coaching philosophy when responding to their children's emotions.
Children of parents who have
an emotion coaching philosophy also tend to be more socially competent, engage in greater positive peer play, and have better social skills than children of parents with an emotion dismissing philosophy (e.g., Gottman et al. 1996).
Not exact matches
Future research on AD children should consider the role of parents» meta -
emotion philosophies when examining parenting practices and investigate how parents» beliefs about meta -
emotions may drive their
emotion coaching behaviours and impact children's socio - emotional functioning.
A parental meta -
emotion philosophy characterised by high levels of emotional awareness and
emotion coaching has been related to positive socio - emotional outcomes in normative child populations (e.g., Gottman et al. 1996).
In comparison to children of parents with an
emotion dismissing
philosophy,
emotion coached children tend to have better physiological and
emotion regulation abilities, fewer externalising and internalising symptoms, higher self - esteem, less physiological stress, and higher levels of academic achievement (e.g., Shortt et al. 2010; Gottman et al. 1996).
Although the current research highlights that in comparison to non-AD youth, AD youth have poorer
emotion regulation and parents of AD youth are less likely to hold an
emotion coaching meta -
emotion philosophy, it must be noted that these findings may not be specific to AD children.
When examining these areas, the empirical evidence suggests that, in general, parents seem to hold either an
emotion coaching or
emotion dismissing
philosophy (Gottman et al. 1997).