Child Regulation of Negative Emotions and Depressive Symptoms: The Moderating Role of Parental Emotion Socialization

Sanders, Wesley; Zeman, Janice; Poon, Jennifer A.; Miller, Rachel L.

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“…Indeed, children's emotion regulation has been associated with parents' reactions , suggesting that parents might modulate their reactions to fit children's emotionality and emotion competence. Moreover, the influence of parents' nonsupportive reactions has been found to differ based on children's emotionality and emotion regulation (Sanders et al 2013). Future research should thus assess the role of children's sadness frequency, intensity, and regulation on parents' use of active discouragement and non-response, as well as their possible interactions.…”

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“…Children's emotion and social development are strongly influenced by the manner in which parents react to children's emotions (Denham et al 2007;Eisenberg et al 1998), with mothers playing a critical and unique role in such emotion socialization Sanders et al 2013;Zeman et al 2010). Research documents that mothers' nonsupportive reactions are particularly relevant for children's development of adjustment problems (e.g., internalizing difficulties, poor social competence).…”

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“…Mothers' nonsupportive reactions are associated with a wide range of children's adjustment problems, including internalizing problems (e.g., Sanders et al 2013;Silk et al 2011) and reduced social competence (e.g., Fabes et al 2001;Jones et al 2002). Conceptual models ; Morris et al 2007) suggest that parents' emotion contingent reactions influence children's adjustment indirectly through their impact on children's emotion regulation.…”

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Mechanisms Mediating Children’s Perceived Maternal Nonsupportive Reactions to Sadness and Children’s Social and Emotional Functioning

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This study examined whether children's perceptions of maternal nonsupportive reactions to sadness (active discouragement and non-response) influenced children's loneliness and classroom popularity indirectly through their effects on children's sadness inhibition and self-perception of social competence. Participants were children in grades 3-6 from a university affiliated public elementary school (N = 175; 53 % females; 37 % racial/ ethnic minority). Children reported on the frequency of their mother's active discouragement and non-response of their sadness, as well their own sadness inhibition, selfperceived social competence, and loneliness. Classroom peers reported on children's popularity. Results indicated that perceived maternal non-response to sadness was indirectly related to classroom popularity and loneliness through the effect on children's self-perception of social competence. In contrast, perceived maternal active discouragement of sadness was indirectly related to children's classroom popularity through the effect on children's sadness inhibition. These results support the consideration of active discouragement and non-response as distinct constructs and indicate the likelihood of different pathways of influence in predicting emotional and social outcomes such as loneliness and classroom popularity.

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“…Finally, magnify entails parents expressing the same emotion with equal or stronger intensity. Several versions of the ESS have been developed for youth, caregivers, peers, and adults as respondents (Kehoe, Havighurst, & Harley, 2014;Klimes-Dougan et al 2014;Magai, Consedine, Gillespie, O'Neal, & Vilker, 2004;Sanders, Zeman, Poon, & Miller, 2015).…”

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New version of the emotion socialization scale with the positive emotion of overjoy: initial validation evidence with Portuguese adolescents

Martins

Ferreira‐Santos

Meira

2018

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Abstract:There are few studies on parental socialization of positive emotions in adolescents and few instruments that measure these parental reactions. Therefore, we developed a new version of the Emotion Socialization Scale (ESS) for the positive emotion of overjoy. We further provided some evidence of validity and reliability of the Portuguese ESS, featuring overjoy, fear, anger, and sadness. Adolescents (N = 418) answered questionnaires on maternal emotion socialization and maternal rearing practices. Confirmatory factor analysis achieved good (reward, neglect, override, magnify) to acceptable (punish) levels of fit, and scales had good levels of internal consistency, except for punish (all emotions) and neglect (overjoy). Association with maternal rearing practices supported the adaptive role of reward and magnify and the less adaptive role of punish, override, neglect of positive emotion, with some exceptions. This investigation demonstrated the importance of assessing parents' reactions to adolescents' positive emotion as these may be important indicators of the parent-adolescent relationship quality.

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“…Ignoring the child's emotion is associated with poorer developmental outcome of emotion (Melo, 2005). Lack of parental support for the child's emotion leads to lower coping with sorrow (Sanders, Zeman, Poon, & Miller, 2013).…”

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Parents Dealing with the Expression of Sadness by their Children

2016

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Objectives: Identifying sadness inductors on children according to parents' perception; checking strategies of emotion regulation used by parents before children's sadness; comparing the ways mothers and fathers deal with children's sadness. Participants: 26 heterosexual couples (Average age = 37 years old), at least two children from six up to twelve years old, one boy and one girl. Delineation: collective case study. Instruments: General data questionnaire; Econômica Brasil qualification criteria; The questions were: "What usually upsets your child?"; "Tell me a situation which made your son sad."; "What did you do in this situation?"; stimulus-story. Outcome: fathers tend to punish sons and daughters when they are sad and replace something lost; mothers minimize it, i. e., reduce the importance of child's reaction, or the problem that caused it. Reaction centered in the problem was the most used by father and mother before children's sadness. Keywords: sadness, emotional regulation, children, parent practices Manejo dos Pais frente à Expressão de Tristeza dos FilhosResumo Objetivos: identificar eliciadores de tristeza nos filhos na percepção dos pais; verificar estratégias de regulação emocional usadas pelos pais frente à tristeza dos filhos; comparar como pai e mãe lidam com a tristeza dos filhos. Participantes: 26 casais heterossexuais (M = 37 anos), pelo menos dois filhos de seis a doze anos, um de cada sexo. Delineamento: estudos de casos coletivos. Instrumentos: Questionário de Dados Gerais; Critério de Classificação Econômica Brasil; perguntas: "O que costuma deixar seu filho triste?"; "Conte uma situação em que seu filho ficou triste."; "O que você fez nessa situação?"; história-estímulo. Resultados: o pai tende a punir os filhos e filhas diante da tristeza e substituir algo perdido; as mães minimizam, ou seja, diminuem a importância da reação emocional da criança, ou do problema que a provocou. A reação centrada no problema foi a estratégia mais utilizada por pai e mãe frente à tristeza dos filhos. Palavras-chave: tristeza, regulação emocional, filhos Proceder de los Padres frente a la Expresión de Tristeza de los HijosResumen Objetivos: Identificar los inductores de tristeza en los hijos según la percepción de sus padres; verificar estrategias de regulación emocional usadas por los padres y también comparar como ellos se comportan en relación a la tristeza de sus hijos. Participantes: 26 parejas heterosexuales, edad media de 37 años, casadas o en unión estable con dos o más hijos, con edad entre 6 y 12 años, uno de cada sexo. Delineamiento: estudios de casos colectivos. Instrumentos: Cuestionario de Datos Generales; Criterio de Clasificación Económica Brasil; guion de entrevista conteniendo tres preguntas: "¿Qué suele dejar a su hijo triste?" "Relate una situación en que su hijo quedó triste." "¿Qué hizo usted en esa situación?; y una historia de estímulo. Resultados: el padre tiende a castigar a los hijos frente a la reacción de tristeza y substituir algo perdido; ya las madres minimizan, o ...

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Child Regulation of Negative Emotions and Depressive Symptoms: The Moderating Role of Parental Emotion Socialization

Cited by 112 publications

References 52 publications

Mechanisms Mediating Children’s Perceived Maternal Nonsupportive Reactions to Sadness and Children’s Social and Emotional Functioning

Mechanisms Mediating Children’s Perceived Maternal Nonsupportive Reactions to Sadness and Children’s Social and Emotional Functioning

New version of the emotion socialization scale with the positive emotion of overjoy: initial validation evidence with Portuguese adolescents

Parents Dealing with the Expression of Sadness by their Children

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