Cognitive emotion regulation in children as related to their parenting style, family type and gender

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate whether cognitive emotion regulation in children varies with parenting style, family type and gender. Toward this end, cognitive emotion regulation and perceived parenting style of 206 school children were measured. Standard regression analyses of data revealed that the models were significant and explained 17.3% of the variance in adaptive emotion regulation (Adjusted R²=0.173; F=9.579, p<.001), and 7.1% of the variance in less adaptive emotion regulation (Adjusted R²=.071, F=4.135, p=.001). Results showed that children's cognitive emotion regulation is functionally associated with parenting style, but not with family type and their gender. Amongst the three types of parenting, authoritative parenting was the strongest predictor of overall adaptive emotion regulation while authoritarian parenting was the strongest predictor of overall less adaptive emotion regulation. Permissive parenting has impact on neither adaptive nor less adaptive emotion regulation. The findings have implications for parents, caregivers, child psychologists and other professionals working with children/ adolescents.

Psychosocial associations of emotion‐regulation strategies in young adults residing in the United Arab Emirates

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“…Specifically, when it comes to the use of specific emotion-regulation strategies, people who have experienced permissive or authoritarian parenting when they were children seem to have a preference for suppression (Jaffe, Gullone, & Hughes, 2010;Monzon, 2016). On the contrary, those who have experienced authoritative parenting prefer the more beneficial use of cognitive reappraisal (Jaffe et al, 2010;Karim, Sharafat, & Mahmud, 2014).…”

Long-lasting effects of family-related factors on adults’ ability to recognise brief facial expressions of emotion

“…Experiment 3 examined the role of parenting authority styles in the response to microexpressions in adults. Previous studies showed that an authoritative parenting style was a predictor of good adaptive emotion regulation in children aged 12 to 15 years, whereas an authoritarian parenting predicted less adaptive emotion regulation (Karim, Sharafat, & Mahmud, 2013). Moreover, the high parental control common in authoritarian parents is associated with poor emotional regulation and internalised (i.e., anxiety, depression) as well as externalised (i.e., delinquency, aggression) problems in adolescents (Barber, 1996; Bean, Bush, McKenry, & Wilson, 2003; Cui et al, 2014; Kunz & Grych, 2013; Silk, Steinberg, & Morris, 2003).…”

Relationship between parenting styles and depression in adolescents

“…Magnusse (16) found that both adolescents and parental over-control are associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms. Some other studies found significant associations between parenting style and depression (12)(13)(14) . It is found that positive correlation exists between authoritarian parenting style and depression.…”

“…Human beings change and develop most dramatically during adolescence in the life cycle. Various biological, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that take placein adolescence and the parent-child relationship get affected by parenting styles (4,5) .Many studies have shown a link between parent-child interaction and emotional and behavioral adjustment in early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence (14) . Therefore, it seems necessary to clarify which factors influence parenting styles in this particular period of life.…”