Caregiver Assistance with Young Children's Emotion Regulation Strategies: Correspondence Between Global and Momentary Reports.

ABSTRACT: Caregivers play a central role in children's emotion regulation development. Caregiver assistance with children's deployment of specific emotion regulation strategies has gained attention in the literature as a key component of emotion socialization. Many studies have examined caregiver support for child emotion regulation strategies using global caregiver self-report measures, but few have leveraged ecological momentary assessment methods to learn about these momentary co-regulatory behaviors in daily life. Furthermore, the degree to which global and momentary reports correspond with each other remains unknown. Discrepancies between global versus momentary reports have important implications for research design and interpretation. The present study evaluated the degree to which caregiver

SUBMITTER: Wright JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12579597 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature