Harsh parenting in
relation to child emotion regulation and aggression.
Not exact matches
Parents» reactions
to children's negative
emotions:
relations to children's social competence and comforting behavior.
When kids witness mild
to moderate conflict that involves support, compromise, and positive
emotions at home, they learn better social skills, self - esteem, and emotional security, which can help parent -
child relations and how well they do in school, E. Mark Cummings, a developmental psychologist at Notre Dame University, tells Developmental Science.
Parents» reactions
to children's negative
emotions:
relations to children's social competence and comforting behavior.
Though it is obvious that adults continue
to struggle with
relation to their
emotions (wanting
to understand them, not wanting
to understand them, wanting them
to not exist, pretending they don't exist, trying
to frantically wave their arms so that they would stop existing), it would be nonsensical
to think that
children and adults are on the same page.
The factors that identify families where alienation is less likely are: abundant positive contact between both parents and the
children; sibling groups who all have good
relations with both parents, good
relations of the
children with family and friends of both parents: free communication
to the
child by others of the good qualities of both parents: lack of defensiveness on the part of each parent as
to the
emotions, statements and criticisms of the other: ability of each parent
to discuss schedules and parenting concerns with the other parent: ability of each parent
to accommodate the schedules and desires of the other.
Mother - and father - reported reactions
to children's negative
emotions:
relations to young
children's emotional understanding and friendship quality.
However, in Study 2 we directly observed parents»
emotion coaching and dismissing behavior in
relation to all negative
emotions expressed by
children.
More specifically, when parents are more supportive and less authoritarian, their
children's verbal and intelligence scores are higher, when examined prospectively.12, 13 Similarly, small
to medium effect sizes have been found through meta - analysis for the relationship between mother -
child attachment and
children's peer
relations, 14 and there is evidence that attachment style predicts differing trajectories in terms of the
child's
emotion regulation.15
Finally, we investigated the associations between the subscales of the SCARED - R and the overall measures of
emotion understanding,
emotion regulation, and attachment security, in order
to see which aspects of
children's anxiety symptoms explained the
relations among the overall measures.
In addition, maternal awareness and coaching of
children's negative
emotions was found
to moderate
relations between maternal symptomatology and
children's internalizing behaviors, and maternal awareness of
children's negative
emotions was found
to moderate
relations between maternal symptomatology and
children's externalizing behaviors.
It has also been demonstrated that socially anxious
children experience difficulties in understanding the
relations between
emotions, intentions, and beliefs in social situations (Banerjee and Henderson, 2001), and that a decreased ability
to differentiate between
emotions relates
to social anxiety in
children and adolescents (Rieffe et al., 2008).
However, whereas the association between
emotion understanding and attachment security seems
to be relatively clear, the
relation between
children's understanding of
emotions and their ability
to regulate their own
emotions is less clear.
More research is needed
to study the
relation between
emotion understanding and
emotion regulation in
children with anxiety disorders.
The specific objective was
to examine the
relations of parents» reactions
to children's negative
emotions with
children's social and emotional competence at school and
to explore the moderating role of
children's dispositional emotionality in this
relation.
This was the first study
to investigate the
relations among anxiety,
emotion understanding,
emotion regulation, and attachment security in the same sample of clinically anxious
children.
Given these
relations between
emotion regulation and psychological health, it would be helpful
to have a reliable and valid instrument
to assess adaptive and maladaptive
emotion regulation strategies for the age group of
children and adolescents.
The
relations of
children's
emotion regulation
to their vicarious emotional responses and comforting behaviors
The
Relation of Parental
Emotion Dysregulation
to Children's Psychopathology Symptoms: The Moderating Role of
Child Emotion Dysregulation.
From a theoretical perspective, Sameroff and Fiese's (2000) model describes development as a series of transactional
relations between self - regulation and other - regulation over time, whereby a
child progresses from relying on others
to regulate their needs and
emotions to being able
to regulate themselves.
Specifically, parental active and passive co-regulation and overall scaffolding have important
relations to child externalizing problems, and interventions for
children with ASD targeting
emotion regulation should encourage parents
to use scaffolding techniques when their
child is exhibiting anger or overly emotional arousal.
For example, in their adapted Social Information Processing model, Lemerise and Arsenio (2000) suggest that
emotions related
to children's peer
relations interact with the
child's social cognitive processes, and permeate each step of the social information processing (SIP) process during peer interactions (Crick and Dodge 1994; Lemerise and Arsenio 2000).
Reluctance
to express
emotion explains
relation between cognitive distortions and social competence in anxious
children.
Emotion - Related Self - Regulation and Its
Relation to Children's Maladjustment.
In comparison
to families of
children with learning disabilities and control groups, they perceived their family
relations as less conducive
to the open expression of
emotions, with lower levels of mutual support, and reported their families as more organized and with higher system maintenance orientation [33].
We found two differences contributing
to the group differences in mediational models: 1) there was a significant association between maternal depressive symptoms and
child emotion regulation among European American families (r = 0.28, p < 0.01), but not among African American families (r = 0.12, n.s.), and 2) there was a significant correlation between maternal warmth and
child peer
relations among European Americans (r = 0.24, p < 0.05, but not African Americans (r = 0.14, n.s.).