Parents' emotion socialization behaviors in response to preschool-aged children's justified and unjustified negative emotions.

ABSTRACT: Parental socialization of children's negative emotions is believed to contribute to children's emotional development, with supportive, process-oriented responses (e.g., explicit acknowledgment of emotional expression and emotion processing) providing opportunities for children to experience and develop adaptive emotion regulation strategies for negative emotions. On the other hand, non-supportive, outcome-oriented responses (e.g., minimizing or punishing children for negative emotional expressions) tend to undermine such opportunities. Less clear, however, is the degree to which parents' own emotional and cognitive processes influence their emotion socialization behaviors. In particular, the perceived justifiability of children's negative emotions may be an important factor for parents' so

SUBMITTER: Bailes LG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10115305 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature