Parent emotion socialization and children's socioemotional adjustment: when is supportiveness no longer supportive?.
Parent emotion socialization and pre-adolescent's social and emotional adjustment: Moderating effects of autonomic nervous system reactivity.
Tuning in to Teens: Improving
parent emotion socialization to reduce youth internalizing difficulties.
Tuning in to teens: Improving
parent emotion socialization to reduce youth internalizing difficulties.
Based on the theory about the role of
parent emotion socialization practice in shaping children's emotional and behavioural competence.
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Research Interests:
Emotion - related family processes, such as parents» emotion socialization strategies, children's social - emotional development, and family
Emotion - related family processes, such as
parents»
emotion socialization strategies, children's social - emotional development, and family
emotion socialization strategies, children's social - emotional development, and family stress.
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.
Gottman et al. [30] have distinguished between
parents»
emotion socialization styles that are either supportive / coaching or dismissing of
emotions.
Past research regarding parental meta -
emotion philosophy has demonstrated concurrent and longitudinal relationships between
parents»
emotion socialization beliefs and practices and children's internalizing, externalizing, and peer problems [33].
Regarding the negative aspects of parental
emotion socialization, higher levels of
parents» dismissing of child
emotion — as directly observed during family emotional conversations — have demonstrated relationships with elevated behavioral problems [37].
The goal of the current research was to investigate
emotion socialization beliefs and practices in the
parents of children with elevated CU traits.
Parents» inconsistent
emotion socialization and children's socioemotional adjustment.
Tuning in to Kids: An effectiveness trial of a
parenting program targeting
emotion socialization of preschoolers.
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].
Moreover, the emotional processing deficits associated with CU traits, may predispose
parents of children elevated on these traits to significant challenges throughout their task of
emotion socialization.
Our findings provide initial evidence for a relationship between CU traits and
parents»
emotion socialization style, and have significant implications for the design of novel family - based interventions targeting CU traits and co-occurring conduct problems.
Somatic complaints in early adolescence: The role of
parents»
emotion socialization.
Parents» thoughts and feelings about
emotions; that is, their meta -
emotion philosophy, are thought to influence their
emotion socialization practices [22, 30].
Namely, the use of multiple informants (i.e., mother, father, teacher) to rate child CU traits and behavior, unique methods (i.e., self - reports and direct observations) to assess two distinct dimensions of
parents»
emotion socialization style, and the use of independent and heterogeneous samples (i.e., community and clinic children) to test our hypotheses.
Further research is needed to examine relationships between
parents»
emotion socialization style and CU traits using more ethnically diverse samples.
Although some studies have not found a direct relationship between
parents»
emotion socialization beliefs and conduct problems [36], prior results provide support for an indirect association wherein parental
emotion coaching influences children's emotional competence (e.g., affect regulation), which in turn is linked to severity of behavioral problems [33].
Taking into account this pattern of emotional functioning, there are several reasons to suggest a potential link between
parents» style of
emotion socialization and levels of childhood CU traits.
Tuning into Kids: Improving
emotion socialization practices in
parents of preschool children — findings from a community trial.
This study examined the efficacy of the Tuning in to Teens (TINT) program in improving
emotion socialization practices in
parents and whether this reduced family conflict and youth externalizing.
Considering that conduct - problem children with CU traits demonstrate significant interpersonal deficits in their emotional functioning, and that
parents play a fundamental role in socializing the ways in which children understand, experience, express, and regulate
emotions [22]; it is surprising that the topic of parental
emotion socialization in the families of children with CU traits has received very limited attention from researchers.
Therefore, it can be argued that
parents» style of
emotion socialization beliefs and practices play an important role in shaping levels of CU traits in children.
The aim of this research was to examine
emotion socialization styles in the
parents of children with high levels of CU traits.
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).
Parents» reactions to young children's
emotions and their direct instruction about
emotions are also important
socialization tools that support the development of EC.
Extant findings suggest that 1) EC is related to young children's success in relationships; 2) EC is related to young children's early success in school; 3)
parents model emotional expression and regulation and structure environments that promote attaining EC; and 4)
parent socialization of
emotion is not the only mechanism by which children's EC is socialized.
Despite these limitations this study extends previous research by formally testing a mediation model including both mothers» and fathers» observed
parenting behavior, and examining the relation between
parents» psychological problems and their own as well as their partner's
emotion socialization behavior.
Given that psychological problems often reflect disturbances in emotional functioning (Kring and Bachoroswki 1999), one area of
parenting that might be particularly prone to the impact of parental psychological problems is
emotion socialization, i.e.,
parents» emotional expressiveness, their reactions to child
emotions, and parental
emotion talk (Eisenberg et al. 1998).
Parent and Friend
Emotion Socialization in Adolescence: Associations with Psychological Adjustment.
Using a retrospective, self - report measure, gender - based
emotion socialization patterns were found across all 3
emotions, which suggests that the gender of both the
parent and child influences the way in which different
emotions are socialized.
There is ample evidence for the direct paths that form the basis for this potential mediation effect, namely (1) the path from
parents» psychopathology symptoms to impaired parental
emotion socialization behaviors and (2) the path from impaired
emotion socialization to maladaptive child social - emotional development.
Furthermore, to date research on the effects of parental psychological problems on
emotion socialization focused mainly on
parents» internalizing symptoms, such as depressed mood and (to a lesser extent) anxiety, while little attention has been given to the potential negative consequences of
parents» externalizing symptoms like outbursts of anger and impulsive behavior.
Parents strongly shape emotional experience and
emotion regulation (ER) in their children, but, interestingly, the effect of parental
emotion socialization on ER appears to be partially mediated by autonomic processes [2].
However, the indirect effect of parental psychopathology symptoms on child social - emotional development via
parents»
emotion socialization behaviors has rarely been studied.
The second path representing the influence of
parents»
emotion socialization behaviors on various domains of child social - emotional development has also been well - documented, albeit again mostly for mothers (e.g., Eisenberg et al. 2003; Grimbos et al. 2013) and to a lesser extent for fathers (e.g., Denham et al. 2010).
Maternal
Emotion Socialization: The Contribution of Inhibited Behaviour and Mothers» Dissatisfaction with the
Parent - Child Relationship.