Mother's emotion coaching and preschooler's emotionality: Moderation by maternal parenting stress

Wu, Qiong; Feng, Xin; Hooper, Emma; Gerhardt, Micah; Ku, Seulki; Chan, Meingold Hiu-ming

doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101066

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“…It is likely that in a high-risk environment (i.e., mothers with elevated depressive symptoms) and when there is a dearth of more effective emotion coaching, LEEC can function to reduce children’s maladaptive ER as children can receive knowledge regarding how to express and regulate sadness adaptively from this type of coaching. This result was consistent with previous findings that maternal coaching of sadness increases ability to regulate sad emotion (Wu, Feng, Hooper, et al, 2019) and that high parental coaching and low elaboration on negative events reduced child internalizing behaviors (Hernandez et al, 2018); it is also in line with other studies finding emotion coaching as more effective when environmental risk is high (e.g., Cohodes et al, 2017; Dunsmore et al, 2013; Lunkenheimer et al, 2007; Wu, Feng, Hooper, et al, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

“…Maternal emotion coaching shows consistent associations with an increased ability to regulate emotions (especially sadness) as well as fewer behavioral problems in preschool-aged children (e.g., Hernandez, Smith, Day, Neal, & Dunsmore, 2018; Wu, Feng, Hooper, et al, 2019). Intervention programs enhancing parental emotion coaching decreased preschoolers’ behavioral problems and increased their social competence (Havighurst et al, 2013).…”

Section: Maternal Emotion Coachingmentioning

confidence: 83%

“…No known study has distinguished between the two different coaching styles to test their potentially differential effects on children’s emotional well-being. In general, maternal emotion coaching behaviors, which may include a combination of both HEEC and LEEC, seem to benefit preschoolers’ ER (Havighurst et al, 2013; Hernandez et al, 2018; Wu, Feng, Hooper, et al, 2019). However, the literature on maternal reminiscing suggests that maternal low elaboration predicts lower child emotional competence when compared to those using less low elaboration (Valentino et al, 2013).…”

Section: Maternal Emotion Coachingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this study, we focused on 3-to-4-year-olds as evidence on emotion coaching focusing on younger preschoolers remains insufficient (Wu, Feng, Hooper, Gerhardt, et al, 2019). The younger preschool age is a critical time for children’s development as it is when children master a host of emotional vocabulary that can help with processing emotion-related information (van der Pol et al, 2015).…”

Section: The Current Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Maternal emotion coaching styles in the context of maternal depressive symptoms: Associations with preschoolers’ emotion regulation.

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Feng²,

Yan³

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This study examined the interplay between maternal depressive symptoms and emotion coaching in predicting preschoolers' emotion regulation skills. Participants included 126 preschoolers and their mothers, assessed at two time points, when children were 3 (T1) and 4 (T2). Mothers' coaching of sadness and anger was observationally assessed in a laboratory task at T1 under two categories, high and low elaborative styles of emotion coaching. Mothers also reported their depressive symptoms at T1. Children's emotion regulation was observed in laboratory tasks eliciting sadness and anger at T1 and T2. Path analyses revealed three-way interactions among maternal depressive symptoms, low elaborative emotion coaching, and high elaborative emotion coaching in predicting preschoolers' emotion regulation in both sadness-and anger-eliciting tasks 1 year later. Maternal low elaborative emotion coaching of sadness reduced children's focus on distress in the sadness-eliciting task only when mothers showed high depressive symptoms and used little high elaborative emotion coaching. In contrast, maternal low elaborative emotion coaching of sadness and anger predicted maladaptive child emotion regulation in both sadness-and anger-eliciting tasks, respectively, when mothers were depressed or used greater high elaborative emotion coaching. Findings highlight the importance of considering different types of maternal emotion coaching language styles in the context of maternal depression and have implications for intervention efforts.

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Maternal emotion coaching styles in the context of maternal depressive symptoms: Associations with preschoolers’ emotion regulation.

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“…To our knowledge, no studies have examined the interaction of PTSS and parenting stress in association with infant outcomes. However, prior work has demonstrated that parenting stress is linked to negative child outcomes in the presence of other risk factors, including temperamental negative affectivity (Wu et al., 2019) and trauma exposure (Cho et al., 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding links between maternal perinatal posttraumatic stress symptoms and infant socioemotional and physical health

Huffhines

Coe

Busuito

et al. 2022

Infant Mental Health Journal

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Maternal posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) are associated with adverse consequences for older children, but very few studies have examined links between perinatal maternal PTSS and infant outcomes. Trauma exposure and psychopathology, including PTSS, is often heightened for women during pregnancy through 1 year postpartum. Therefore, the perinatal period may be a critical time for understanding the risk maternal PTSS and other mental health factors pose to the socioemotional and physical health of infants. The present study explored the relation between maternal PTSS and infant socioemotional and physical health problems in a sample of racially and ethnically diverse mother-infant dyads (N = 295) assessed prenatally and at 12 months postpartum. This study also examined whether there are: (1) moderating effects of maternal depressive symptoms and parenting stress on these associations and (2) indirect effects of PTSS on infant outcomes through observed maternal sensitivity. Results indicated that postpartum depressive symptoms and parenting stress, rather than PTSS, were associated with greater infant socioemotional health problems. However, prenatal PTSS were associated with greater infant physical health problems when mothers also reported clinically significant levels of postpartum depressive symptoms. Maternal sensitivity was not associated with maternal PTSS, depressive symptoms, or parenting stress, nor was it related to infant socioemotional and physical health; thus, maternal sensitivity was not tested as an intermediary mechanism linking maternal mental health with infant outcomes. Implications for promoting maternal mental health in the perinatal period to bolster socioemotional and physical health of infants are discussed.

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Maternal Childhood Maltreatment and Quality of Child-Mother Relationship: Mediating Role of Meta-Parenting and Parenting Stress

Shameli,

Mohammadi,

Khormaei

2024

J Child Fam Stud

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Mother's emotion coaching and preschooler's emotionality: Moderation by maternal parenting stress

Cited by 20 publications

References 46 publications

Maternal emotion coaching styles in the context of maternal depressive symptoms: Associations with preschoolers’ emotion regulation.

Maternal emotion coaching styles in the context of maternal depressive symptoms: Associations with preschoolers’ emotion regulation.

Understanding links between maternal perinatal posttraumatic stress symptoms and infant socioemotional and physical health

Maternal Childhood Maltreatment and Quality of Child-Mother Relationship: Mediating Role of Meta-Parenting and Parenting Stress

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