Emotion Regulation in At‐Risk Preschoolers: Longitudinal Associations and Influences of Maternal Histories of Risk

August, Elana G.; Stack, Dale M.; Martin‐Storey, Alexa; Serbin, Lisa A.; Ledingham, Jane E.; Schwartzman, Alex E.

doi:10.1002/icd.1954

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“…Eleven studies were included in the meta-analysis of parent-focused strategies in the first year of life [ 14 , 35 , 37 , 38 , 40 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 ], providing 1809 participants. The weighted mean effect size was r = 0.00, CI 95% [−0.17, 0.17], indicating a lack of a relationship overall between distress expression and parent-focused strategies.…”

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Child Distress Expression and Regulation Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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The goal of the current study was to review and meta-analyze the literature on relationships between child distress expression behaviors (e.g., cry) and three clusters of child distress regulation behaviors (disengagement of attention, parent-focused behaviors, and self-soothing) in the first three years of life. This review was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42020157505). Unique abstracts were identified through Medline, Embase, and PsycINFO (n = 13,239), and 295 studies were selected for full-text review. Studies were included if they provided data from infants or toddlers in a distress task, had distinct behavioral measures of distress expression and one of the three distress regulation clusters, and assessed the concurrent association between them. Thirty-one studies were included in the meta-analysis and rated on quality. Nine separate meta-analyses were conducted, stratified by child age (first, second, and third year) and regulation behavior clusters (disengagement of attention, parent-focused, and self-soothing). The weighted mean correlations for disengagement of attention behaviors were −0.28 (year 1), −0.44 (year 2), and −0.30 (year 3). For parent-focused behaviors, the weighted mean effects were 0.00 (year 1), 0.20 (year 2), and 0.11 (year 3). Finally, the weighted mean effects for self-soothing behaviors were −0.23 (year 1), 0.25 (year 2), and −0.10 (year 3). The second year of life showed the strongest relationships, although heterogeneity of effects was substantial across the analyses. Limitations include only analyzing concurrent relationships and lack of naturalistic distress paradigms in the literature.

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Child Distress Expression and Regulation Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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“…For instance, Mortensen and Barnett (2019) found a link between intrusive maternal parenting at 14 months and ER capacities during toddlerhood (14–36 months). Furthermore, mothers' use of non‐constructive verbal expression predicted maladaptive ER styles in preschoolers, especially increased child fretting, overactivity, and negative attention‐seeking (August et al, 2017). Saritaş et al (2013) also confirmed that maternal harsh parenting, including hostility and rejection, was associated with lower ER in adolescents.…”

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The role of fathers in children's emotion regulation development: A systematic review

Islamiah

Breinholst

Walczak

et al. 2023

Infant and Child Development

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This systematic review summarizes the results of 43 studies that explored the potential role of fathers in emotion regulation (ER) development in children. Following a tripartite model, this review investigates the paternal modelling of ER strategies, emotion‐related paternal parenting practices, father–child emotional climate, and fathers' characteristics, by identifying 16 specific themes of paternal factors that could play a role in the child's ER development. Results show that while a large number of studies investigated father–child emotional climate and fathers' characteristics and their association with children's ER, the effects of paternal modelling and the father's emotion‐related parenting practices on children's ER are still understudied. This review reveals that several factors—fathers' modelling of ER strategies; positive reactions and support in responding to their child's expression of emotions; better quality of the father–child relationship; higher father–child attachment security; and positive parenting in terms of sensitivity, engagement, and expressiveness—had significant associations with children's higher ER skills. Conversely, fathers' psychopathology and harsh parenting were associated with poorer ER skills in children. Highlights This study summarized existing literature that explored the association between paternal factors and ER in children. The review showed some evidence supporting the paternal role in children's ER development. Fathers' role in the development of child's ER is most prominent in infancy and toddlerhood. Most paternal factors significantly associated with a child's ER reflected previous findings examining maternal factors.

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“…Grady and Callan (2019) found that parent ET behaviors (measured using a similar picture book reading task as the present study) such as explaining emotions were effective in helping shy toddlers with low dispositional self-regulation regulate their fear and socially engage with an unfamiliar experimenter. On the contrary, parents’ use of negative, nonconstructive language in emotional situations was associated with preschoolers’ reduced use of adaptive emotion-regulation strategies (August et al, 2017). In conjunction, these findings suggest that not only parent ET is linked to children’s arousal and regulatory capacities, but also the type of ET matters.…”

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Emotion talk in Chinese American immigrant families and longitudinal links to children’s socioemotional competence.

Curtis¹,

Zhou²,

Tao³

2020

Developmental Psychology

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Parent emotion talk (ET), a type of emotion-related socialization practice, is theorized to foster children's emotion-related regulation and socioemotional skills. Yet, there has been limited research linking parent ET to children's effortful control, a top-down regulatory process. Despite the observed cultural differences in ET between Chinese and European American families, few researchers tested whether the socioemotional benefits of ET are generalizable to Chinese American families, an immigrant group with contrasting values in their heritage and host cultures. The present study examined Chinese American parents' ET, its associations with sociocultural factors, and prospective relations to school-age children's effortful control, sympathy, and socially appropriate behaviors. In a two-wave (1.5 years apart) longitudinal study of first-and second-generation Chinese American children (N ϭ 258, age ϭ 6 -9 years at Wave 1, 52% from low-income families), the content and quality of parent ET (e.g., the overall quality of emotion talk, frequency of emotion explanations, emotion questions, and number of emotion words) was coded from a video-recorded shared book reading task. Children's effortful control, sympathy, and social behaviors were rated by parents, teachers, and children. Results showed that the Chinese American parents from lower socioeconomic status families, families with lower English proficiency, or more recent immigrants displayed lower ET. Parent ET was prospectively related to children's higher effortful control after controlling for stability, and higher effortful control was concurrently associated with children's higher sympathy and more socially appropriate behaviors. The findings provide empirical support for the socioemotional benefits of ET for school-age children in Chinese American immigrant families.

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Emotion Regulation in At‐Risk Preschoolers: Longitudinal Associations and Influences of Maternal Histories of Risk

Cited by 14 publications

References 58 publications

Child Distress Expression and Regulation Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Child Distress Expression and Regulation Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

The role of fathers in children's emotion regulation development: A systematic review

Emotion talk in Chinese American immigrant families and longitudinal links to children’s socioemotional competence.

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