Household Chaos, Parental Responses to Emotion, and Child Emotion Regulation in Middle Childhood.

ABSTRACT: Parents' responses to children's negative emotional states play a key role in the socialization of emotion regulation skills in childhood. Much of the prior research on child ER has focused on early development using cross-sectional designs. The current study addresses these gaps by using a longitudinal design to examine individual differences of ER at two times points in middle childhood. We examined the development of children's ER by testing hypotheses about the interplay of parent response to emotions and household chaos in the prediction of individual differences in children's ER. Participants were the mothers of children at 6 and 9 years of age among 224 families in a socioeconomically diverse sample that was part of an ongoing longitudinal study. Mothers completed questionnaires reg

SUBMITTER: Hong Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8323614 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature