Parenting and childhood irritability: Negative emotion socialization and parental control moderate the development of irritability.

ABSTRACT: Irritability, characterized by anger in response to frustration, is normative in childhood. While children typically show a decline in irritability from toddlerhood to school age, elevated irritability throughout childhood may predict later psychopathology. The current study (n = 78) examined associations between trajectories of irritability in early childhood (ages 2-7) and irritability in adolescence (age 12) and tested whether these associations are moderated by parenting behaviors. Results indicate that negative emotion socialization moderated trajectories of irritability - relative to children with low stable irritability, children who exhibited high stable irritability in early childhood and who had parents that exhibited greater negative emotion socialization behaviors had hi

SUBMITTER: Ravi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9289071 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature