Tuning in to Teens: Improving Parent Emotion Socialization to Reduce Youth Internalizing Difficulties

Kehoe, Christiane E.; Havighurst, Sophie S.; Harley, Ann E.

doi:10.1111/sode.12060

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“…Furthermore, it is possible that such programs could hold particular promise for parents with psychopathology, given lower levels of mindfulness (e.g., Desrosiers et al., ) and higher levels of negative parenting practices (Solis et al., ). Alternatively, there are also several interventions that focus specifically on parent ES behaviors (e.g., Tuning into Teens, Kehoe, Havighurst, & Harley, ; Tuning into Kids, Havighurst, Wilson, Harley, Prior, & Kehoe, ), including a Father's Parenting Program (Dads Tuning into Kids; Wilson, Havighurst, Kehoe, & Harley, ) that may benefit from a focus on parent mindfulness (Dumas, ).…”

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Mindful Parenting and Emotion Socialization Practices: Concurrent and Longitudinal Associations

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Caregivers play a crucial role in the socialization of youth emotion understanding, competence, and regulation, which are implicated in youth social and emotional health; however, there is less understanding of parental psychosocial or cognitive factors, like mindful parenting, that may be associated with the use of particular emotion socialization (ES) strategies. This study tests a model of the cross-sectional and short-term longitudinal associations between mindful parenting and supportive and nonsupportive ES strategies in a community sample of parents (N = 246; 63.8% mothers) of youth ranging from ages 3-12. Caregivers reported on mindful parenting and ES strategies at two time points 4 months apart. The structural equation model indicated that higher levels of mindful parenting are positively related to supportive ES responses and negatively related to nonsupportive ES responses both concurrently and over time. The longitudinal association between mindful parenting and nonsupportive, but not supportive, ES was marginally larger for fathers as compared to mothers. Given the documented impact of ES strategies on youth emotional and behavioral outcomes and interventions emerging to educate parents about how to provide a healthy emotional atmosphere, incorporating a focus on mindful parenting strategies may provide one pathway to increase supportive responses and decrease nonsupportive ones.

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Mindful Parenting and Emotion Socialization Practices: Concurrent and Longitudinal Associations

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“…The Emotions as a Child Scale (EAC; Magai & O’Neal, 1997) is a commonly used measure assessing parental emotion socialization (Kehoe, Havighurst, & Harley, 2014; Sharp, Cohen, Kitzmann, & Parra, 2016; Silk et al, 2011). Across four emotions (anger, fear/anxiety, sadness, and shame), the scale assesses five dimensions of emotion socialization strategies that either encourage or discourage children’s emotional expressions: Reward, Punish, Override, Neglect, and Magnify.…”

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Factor structure of the Emotions as a Child Scale in late adolescence and emerging adulthood.

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Although the Emotions as a Child Scale (EAC) has been widely used in research with children and adolescents, no peer-reviewed studies have examined its factor structure using factor analytic methods. Likewise, the measurement equivalence of the scale across gender and race/ethnicity has never been investigated. To address these gaps, this study examines the factor structure of the scale in late adolescence and emerging adulthood, compares it to previous theory-driven models, and evaluates its measurement invariance across gender and 2 racial/ethnic groups. Participants were 1,087 individuals participating in a larger community-based study of adolescent health (M = 19.35 years, SD = 1.19). Results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses suggest that a 2-factor model from a shortened version of the scale (3 items were eliminated from each emotion scale), involving supportive and unsupportive socialization strategies, is a good alternative model to the original 5-factor structure for researchers interested in broader conceptualization of emotion socialization strategies. This 2-factor model of the shortened scale showed stronger measurement invariance across gender than racial/ethnic groups. Future studies addressing racial/ethnic differences with this measure should compare the results with and without imposing corresponding invariance constraints on noninvariant items. Findings of this study should be replicated in other age and racial/ethnic groups, and examine the predictive utility of the abbreviated 2-factor model for emotion-related outcomes across development.

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“…Parent interventions such as Tuning in to Kids have shown meaningful improvements in parents’ awareness and understanding of children's emotions and emotion coaching behaviors (Havighurst, Wilson, Harley, & Prior, 2009; Havighurst, Wilson, Harley, Prior & Kehoe, 2010) and decreases in dismissing beliefs and behaviors regarding children's emotions (Kehoe, Havighurst, & Harley, 2013; Wilson, Havighurst, & Harley, 2012). Reductions in child problem behaviors (Havighurst et al, 2009, 2010) and internalizing symptoms (Kehoe et al, 2013) are also seen. To date, much of the research with such programs has focused on community samples rather than clinical populations.…”

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Emotion Socialization in the Context of Risk and Psychopathology: Maternal Emotion Coaching Predicts Better Treatment Outcomes for Emotionally Labile Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder

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We examined whether maternal emotion coaching at pre-treatment predicted children's treatment response following a 12-week program addressing children's Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) symptoms. Eighty-nine mother-child dyads participated. At pre-treatment, mothers and children engaged in an emotion talk task. Mothers also reported their beliefs about emotions at pre-treatment and their child's disruptive behavior symptoms, emotion regulation, and emotion lability/negativity at pre-, mid-, and post-treatment. Clinicians reported children's symptom severity at pre- and post-treatment. Children's emotion lability/negativity moderated effects of maternal emotion coaching on children's post-treatment ODD symptoms, with stronger benefits of emotion coaching for children high in emotion lability/negativity. Results suggest that emotion coaching may promote treatment response for children with ODD who are especially at risk due to their emotionality.

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Tuning in to Teens: Improving Parent Emotion Socialization to Reduce Youth Internalizing Difficulties

Abstract: Research in child development

Cited by 120 publications

References 70 publications

Mindful Parenting and Emotion Socialization Practices: Concurrent and Longitudinal Associations

Mindful Parenting and Emotion Socialization Practices: Concurrent and Longitudinal Associations

Factor structure of the Emotions as a Child Scale in late adolescence and emerging adulthood.

Emotion Socialization in the Context of Risk and Psychopathology: Maternal Emotion Coaching Predicts Better Treatment Outcomes for Emotionally Labile Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder

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