“…Because child behavioral problems are known to elicit negative feelings in parents (Calkins, 2002; Nicholson, Fox, & Johnson, 2005) in situations when the child displays behaviors such as negative affect and noncompliance, the parent is more likely to experience negative emotions arising from the child’s behaviors. Parental negative emotional reactivity and poor emotional regulation can be major components of harsh and abusive parenting behaviors (Deater-Deckard, Wang, Chen, & Bell, 2012; Lorber, O’Leary, & Kendziora, 2003; Mills & McCarroll, 2012). Therefore, it is important to understand the ways in which child behaviors relate to maternal emotional reactivity and regulation at behavioral and psychophysiological levels of measurement and analysis.…”