Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The current study examined the efficacy of the Tuning in to Teens (TINT) parenting program in
improving emotion socialization practices in parents of preadolescents and reducing youth internalizing difficulties.
Indeed, studies have found that parents with psychological difficulties show less optimal
emotion socialization practices such as low sensitive responsiveness to negative child emotions (e.g., Dix et al. 2004).
Similarly, the lack of guilt and remorse associated with CU traits might frustrate parents in their bids to socialize high CU children about emotions, leading to less positive and more
negative emotion socialization practices over time.
In Study 2, parents»
emotion socialization practices — that is, their use of emotion coaching and dismissing behavior — were coded from direct observations of family interactions involving the discussion of past emotional experiences.
Recent treatment studies demonstrate that parents can improve on various aspects of
their emotion socialization practices in the context of interventions that also target child behavioral problems [32, 73].
Parents» thoughts and feelings about emotions; that is, their meta - emotion philosophy, are thought to influence
their emotion socialization practices [22, 30].
Bootstrap estimates for independent associations between directly observed parent
emotion socialization practices and callous — unemotional traits, controlling for age
Results indicate that intervention parents, reported changes in parents» awareness and regulation of emotion and
emotion socialization practices and this resulted in reduced youth somatic complaints compared to the control group at postintervention follow - up (see length below).
Taken together, the results were consistent in suggesting that the mothers of children with higher levels of CU traits are more likely to have affective attitudes that are less accepting of emotion (Study 1), and
emotion socialization practices that are more dismissing of child emotion (Study 2).
In addition, previous studies suggesting a mediating role of emotion socialization focused on more implicit
emotion socialization practices of which parents are not or only partially aware, i.e., parents» direct responses to child emotions and their own emotional expressiveness, and little is known about more explicit emotion socialization practices such as parental emotion talk.
Tuning in to Kids: Improving
emotion socialization practices in parents of preschool children - findings from a community trial
The current study contributed to the further understanding of individual differences in fathers»
emotion socialization practices.
Emotion socialization practices in Latina and European - American mothers of preschoolers with behavior problems.