Maternal socialization of emotion and the development of emotion regulation in early adolescent girls.

ABSTRACT: Regulation of negative emotions is a core competency of child development. Parental emotion socialization profoundly influences later capacity to regulate negative affect in childhood and adolescence. The present study examined the effects of maternal emotion socialization on the development of emotion regulation in the context of a longitudinal study of 210 mother-daughter dyads. Dyads completed a conflict resolution task when the child was age 11 years during which maternal warmth and hostility were coded. At ages 11 to 13 years, mothers completed self-report measures of supportive and nonsupportive responses to child negative emotion, and children completed self-reports of inhibition and adaptive regulation of sadness and anger. We used latent growth curve modeling to estimate changes i

SUBMITTER: Berona J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9905353 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature