Parent emotion socialization and children's socioemotional adjustment: when is supportiveness no longer supportive?

Mirabile, Scott P.; Oertwig, Dejah; Halberstadt, Amy G.

doi:10.1111/sode.12226

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“…However, the current study had several limitations. Although child gender and age were covariates, these variables may directly influence parents’ PA socialization, or moderate its effects (Mirabile et al, ; Root & Denham, ). Moreover, our sample consisted entirely of mothers.…”

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Maternal socialization of children’s positive affect regulation: Associations with children’s savoring, dampening, and depressive symptoms

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Maternal socialization of positive affect (PA) is linked to children's regulation of positive and negative emotions and the development of psychopathology. However, few studies have examined multiple types of emotion socialization as related to children's PA regulation and depressive symptoms. The current study examined how mothers’ socialization of children's PA regulation was related to children's PA regulation, and if children's PA regulation mediated the association between maternal socialization and children's depressive symptoms. Ninety‐six mother–child dyads (children aged 7–12) completed questionnaires and a five‐minute discussion about a positive event the child previously experienced; 76 dyads completed surveys again five months later. Partial correlations, controlling for child age and gender, indicated associations between maternal PA socialization and child PA regulation. Moderated mediation models suggested that maternal modeling of savoring predicted Time 2 child depressive symptoms via children's own savoring, which was moderated by Time 1 depressive symptoms. The moderated path indicated that only for children who reported higher depressive symptoms at Time 1, higher levels of savoring predicted lower depressive symptoms at Time 2. These results underscore the importance of examining multiple types of PA socialization and child PA regulation to predict children's depressive symptoms longitudinally.

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“…Moreover, to explore the percentage of variance of parents' ERSBs explained by both parents' and children's characteristics, linear regression analyses by the stepwise method were applied. As in previous studies (e.g., [3] [26] [40]) having a moderate sample size, the use of multiple linear regression was evaluated as a good method in light of the objectives of the Study 1. Table 1 presents means and standard deviations for all measures and Table 2 presents inter-correlations between parental ERSBs, children's personality and parent's emotional competences.…”

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“…Many studies revealed that supportive parental reactions to child's emotions are related to better child's abilities in Theory of Mind (ToM) (e.g., [1] [2]), or in emotional regulation (ER) (e.g., [3] [18] [22]) and in social adjustment (e.g., [7] [11]). While parental non-supportive reactions may impede the child's socio-emotional development.…”

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“…These studies could give guidelines to prevent emotional and behavioural disorders in young children, taking into account the bidirectional links between both parents' practices and children socio-emotional abilities. More specifically, the recent literature emphasized the importance to examine how mothers and fathers help their child to regulate and understand emotions or mental states in social situations that could sustain their social adjustment [1] [2] [3].…”

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Variability and Predictors of Mothers and Fathers’ Socialization Behaviors and Bidirectional Links with Their Preschoolers Socio-Emotional Competences

Mazzone¹,

Nader-Grosbois²

2017

JBBS

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In their Parental Socialization of Emotions model, Eisenberg, Cumberland and Spinrad (1998) differentiated parents' Emotion-Related Socialization Behaviours (ERSBs) that support their child's socio-emotional development: their reactions to their child's emotions, their discussions about emotions with the child and the expressions of their own emotions in the family. The crosssectional study focused on the variability of parents' ERSBs according to children's and parents' characteristics (Study 1) and included 167 mothers and 152 fathers of preschoolers. The short-term longitudinal study examined the interaction between parents' ERSBs and children's socio-emotional abilities (Theory of Mind, emotional regulation and social adjustment) (Study 2) in 53 two-parent families and their children, with a 6 months interval. In Study 1, parents' ERSBs, their emotional competences and children's personality were assessed by means of questionnaires. In Study 2, we combined direct and indirect measures to assess children's socio-emotional competences. Results of Study 1 indicated that parental ERSBs were mainly predicted by children's personality, such as emotional stability and parents' emotional competences, such as communication about their own emotions. Moreover, we observed a differential sensitivity between mothers and fathers toward children's personality. Results of Study 2 revealed that both mothers and fathers socialized their children's socio-emotional competences, particularly by the way of emotion-related conversations with their children. Mothers' emotion-related conversations predicted children's Theory of mind abilities and social adjustment, while fathers' emotion-related conversations predicted children's emotional regulation. In addition, fathers' reactions to their child- ren's emotions were predicted by children's socio-emotional competences. These studies highlighted bidirectional effects between parents' behaviours and children's development. They emphasized also the importance to better identify predictors of parents' ERSBs in order to know on which target the professionals should intervene.

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“…However, as children get older, parents may downregulate expressions of peak PA as it may become less appropriate with increased age (Lunkenheimer, Shields, & Cortina, ). There is some empirical work on NA socialization to support this conjecture (e.g., parents’ supportive responses to NA were linked to less child internalizing for younger children but more internalizing for older children; Mirabile, Oertwig, & Halberstadt, ). From the quartet papers, significant associations between children's age and youth PA regulation and maternal socialization were found with 7–12‐year‐olds (Moran et al, this issue), but the other three articles with adolescent samples did not report associations with age (Fredrick et al, this issue; Nelis et al, this issue; Raval et al, this issue).…”

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Positive affect regulation in youth: Taking stock and moving forward

Gentzler

Root

2019

Social Development

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This article summarizes the four articles in the Social Development quartet focused on positive affect regulation in youth. Each article in the quartet shows that parents’ socialization of youth positive affect (e.g., encouraging, enhancing, savoring, or dampening responses) is associated with youth positive affect regulation and depressive symptoms. Further, three of the studies provide novel evidence for an indirect relationship whereby parental socialization predicts youth depressive symptoms through youth positive affect regulation. The studies include samples of youth across mid‐childhood and adolescence (7–18‐year‐olds) from three countries (the United States, Belgium, and India), and utilize several methods of assessing youth positive affect regulation or parental socialization (parent‐reported surveys, youth‐reported surveys, coded parent–child discussions). This integrative article also identifies several ways in which the study of youth positive affect regulation can be advanced. We address the conceptualization of positive affect regulation and the socialization of children's positive affect, constraints on the adaptiveness of upregulating positive emotions, methodological directions, potential moderated effects based on child characteristics such as sex or temperament, and the importance of studying outcomes beyond depression.

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Parent emotion socialization and children's socioemotional adjustment: when is supportiveness no longer supportive?

Abstract: Parents' supportive emotion socialization behaviors promote children's socioemotional competence in early childhood, but the nature of parents' supportiveness may change over time, as children continue to develop their emotion-related abilities and enter contexts that

Cited by 90 publications

References 67 publications

Maternal socialization of children’s positive affect regulation: Associations with children’s savoring, dampening, and depressive symptoms

Maternal socialization of children’s positive affect regulation: Associations with children’s savoring, dampening, and depressive symptoms

Variability and Predictors of Mothers and Fathers’ Socialization Behaviors and Bidirectional Links with Their Preschoolers Socio-Emotional Competences

Positive affect regulation in youth: Taking stock and moving forward

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