“…Parental meta-emotion refers to a parent's feelings and thoughts about their own emotions as well as the emotions of their child (Gottman, Fainsilber-Katz, & Hooven, 1996). Empirical work has demonstrated parent meta-emotions are influential to child outcomes, both directly as well as indirectly, via parenting behavior (Brajsa-Zganec, 2013;Fainsilber Katz, Maliken, & Stettler, 2012;Gottman et al, 1996;Loop & Roskam, 2016). In particular, parents who are emotionally aware of their own internal states are better able to regulate distress and can then more effectively model emotional expression to their children, helping to mitigate negative child behavioral reactions (Gottman et al, 1996;Hurrell, Houwing, & Hudson, 2017).…”