The role of strategy-use and parasympathetic functioning in maternal emotion regulation.

ABSTRACT: Research has recognized that parental emotion regulation influences whether parents respond sensitively to their children in challenging parenting situations. However, parental emotion regulation is usually assessed using questionnaires that are not about parenting, rather than through examining parents' reaction to specific parenting situations that might evoke negative emotions. This study investigates individual differences in mothers' emotion regulation during parenting, specifically examining the relation between their subjective negative emotions and observed parenting behaviors and whether this relation is moderated by cognitive (strategies to manage negative emotions) and physiological (resting baseline and reactivity of respiratory sinus arrhythmia; RSA) processes. Data of 157 mot

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9859936 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature