{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Kiel EJ"],"funding":["NICHD NIH HHS","NIMH NIH HHS","National Institute of Mental Health","University of Missouri; Department of Psychological Services","National Institute of Child Health and Human Development","University of Missouri"],"pagination":["793-803"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6745000"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["20(5)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Developmental theories of emotion regulation suggest that influences from both extrinsic (e.g., from caregivers) and intrinsic (i.e., temperament) sources contribute to children's displays of emotion regulatory behaviors. Very few studies have examined specific caregiver behaviors in relation to specific regulatory behaviors. Further, few empirical investigations have tested theoretical notions that temperament may be an important context in which to understand the nature of the relation between caregiver behavior and toddlers' regulatory behaviors. The current study examined the specific maternal behavior of physical comfort in relation to three regulatory strategies exhibited by toddlers (attention-shifting, caregiver-focused behavior, and self-focused behavior) in 117 pairs of mothers and their 24-month-old toddlers. Further, we tested the temperament dimension of dysregulated fear, a more recent derivation of behavioral inhibition, both in relation to regulatory efforts and as a moderator of relations between maternal comforting and toddler regulatory behaviors. Dysregulated fear related directly and positively to attention-shifting, and it moderated the relation between maternal comforting and both caregiver-focused and self-focused behaviors. This study provides new evidence of the importance of both extrinsic and intrinsic correlates of emotion regulation in early childhood. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)."],"journal":["Emotion (Washington, D.C.)"],"pubmed_title":["Maternal comforting behavior, toddlers' dysregulated fear, and toddlers' emotion regulatory behaviors."],"pmcid":["PMC6745000"],"funding_grant_id":["R01 MH075750","F31 MH077385","F31 MH077385-01","R15 HD076158"],"pubmed_authors":["Kiel EJ","Price NN","Premo JE"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Maternal comforting behavior, toddlers' dysregulated fear, and toddlers' emotion regulatory behaviors.","description":"Developmental theories of emotion regulation suggest that influences from both extrinsic (e.g., from caregivers) and intrinsic (i.e., temperament) sources contribute to children's displays of emotion regulatory behaviors. Very few studies have examined specific caregiver behaviors in relation to specific regulatory behaviors. Further, few empirical investigations have tested theoretical notions that temperament may be an important context in which to understand the nature of the relation between caregiver behavior and toddlers' regulatory behaviors. The current study examined the specific maternal behavior of physical comfort in relation to three regulatory strategies exhibited by toddlers (attention-shifting, caregiver-focused behavior, and self-focused behavior) in 117 pairs of mothers and their 24-month-old toddlers. Further, we tested the temperament dimension of dysregulated fear, a more recent derivation of behavioral inhibition, both in relation to regulatory efforts and as a moderator of relations between maternal comforting and toddler regulatory behaviors. Dysregulated fear related directly and positively to attention-shifting, and it moderated the relation between maternal comforting and both caregiver-focused and self-focused behaviors. This study provides new evidence of the importance of both extrinsic and intrinsic correlates of emotion regulation in early childhood. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).","dates":{"release":"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2020 Aug","modification":"2024-11-13T13:47:56.847Z","creation":"2022-02-11T00:18:19.06Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6745000","cross_references":{"pubmed":["30869939"],"doi":["10.1037/emo0000600"]}}