Direct and indirect associations among mothers' invalidating childhood environment, emotion regulation difficulties, and parental apology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective emotion regulation abilities are essential for engaging in positive, validating parenting practices. Yet, many parents report difficulties with both emotion regulation and positive parenting, and these difficulties may in part be the result of parents' own childhood experiences of invalidation. Building upon prior literature documenting the intergenerational transmission of invalidation and emotion dysregulation, the present study examined the associations between these constructs and a specific parenting practice - parental apology - that can be conceptualized as a type of validating parenting practice.

Methods

Using a sample of 186 community mothers, we tested direct and indirect relationships via correlational and path analysis between participants' r

SUBMITTER: Adams-Clark AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9387053 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature