Caregiver discomfort in response to children's emotion displays.

ABSTRACT: The emotion socialization behaviors that caregivers engage in with their own children are influenced, in part, by their own emotional responses to situations. One theory of why caregivers' behaviors differ in response to different child emotions centers on variability in caregiver discomfort around these emotions. Further, this discomfort is postulated to stem from a caregivers' experience during their emotional expressions in childhood with their own caregivers (hereinafter called "remembered" caregiving). However, limited research exists on the interplay between caregivers' remembered caregiving experiences and their own discomfort in response to children's emotions. This study aimed to explore (a) the association between valence of children's emotions and caregiver discomfort, (b) diffe

SUBMITTER: Lempres SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12327770 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature