Maternal emotional intelligence and negative parenting affect are independently associated with callous-unemotional traits in preschoolers.

ABSTRACT: Deficits in emotion intelligence (EI) are a key component of early-childhood callous-unemotional (CU) traits. Children's EI may be influenced by their mother's EI through both familial genetic and environmental mechanisms; however, no study has directly tested the role of maternal EI in the development of CU traits. This study investigated whether maternal EI had a direct relationship with children's CU traits when controlling for the potential influence of parenting affect and other psychiatric diagnoses. Mothers and their 3- to 5-year-old preschoolers (N = 200) were recruited as part of a parent-child interaction-emotion development therapy treatment trial for preschool clinical depression and comorbid psychopathology. Using data collected prior to treatment, regression models tested whe

SUBMITTER: Brady RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10163950 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature