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Abstract

Research has linked language delays in young children to behavior problems and risk for psychopathology. We hypothesized that low language skill would affect normal socialization of emotion regulation, which in turn would affect the development of behavior problems. Seventy-eight mother/preschool-age child pairs participated in two mildly frustrating situations. Parents of children with low verbal comprehension used more unexplained compliance demands than other parents. Further, children whose parents used more unexplained compliance demands used fewer cognitive and distraction strategies, and more instrumental strategies. Children's use of physical self-comforting was positively related to overall, internalizing, and externalizing behavior problems. Findings supported the original hypothesis.

Low‐income, Minority Fathers’ Control Strategies and Their Children's Regulatory Skills

“…A growing body of research suggests that children's gender might be particularly influential in eliciting certain control strategies from their caregivers (Stansbury & Zimmerman, 1999). A study of Israeli fathers and their two-year-olds found that fathers exhibited more warm control strategies with their daughters than their sons (Feldman & Klein, 2003), suggesting boys may elicit different control strategies from their fathers than girls.…”

“…Children's language skills have also been linked to differential parenting (Tamis-LeMonda, Briggs, McClowry, & Snow, 2009). For example, a study of mothers and their preschool aged children found that children with lower verbal comprehension had mothers who used more unexplained compliance demands with their toddlers (Stansbury & Zimmerman, 1999). Additional findings suggest that children's early language skills are linked with their regulatory skill development (Vallotton & Ayoub, 2011).…”

“…We also examine whether children themselves influence fathers' control strategies. In particular we focus on child gender and vocabulary skills because these have been identified as individual characteristics of children that influence parenting (Stansbury & Zimmerman, 1999; Tamis-LeMonda, Briggs, McClowry, & Snow, 2009). We use a sample of low-income minority children and their fathers enrolled in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (EHSREP) to ask the following research questions: (1) What types of control strategies do low-income minority fathers use during interactions with their toddlers?…”

Emotion Regulation Among Preschoolers on a Continuum of Risk: The Role of Maternal Emotion Coaching

“…Children with these skills are able to monitor, evaluate and modify emotional reactions (Thompson 1994), or in other words, to manage the ebb and flow of negative emotions (Kopp 1989). The ability to regulate emotions effectively is crucial to successful development (Morris et al 2007) and is associated with social competence while difficulties with emotion regulation are linked to both internalizing and externalizing disorders (Stansbury and Zimmermann 1999; Zeman et al 2006). …”

Evaluation and Analysis of Anomalies Possibly Associated with the USS Col. Kinsman Atchafalaya River, Louisiana

“…This chapter has drawn from the 2000 Earth Search report (Saltus et al 2000), from a report prepared for the Young-Sanders Center by Roland Stansbury (Stansbury 1999) and from newly collected data.…”