When is Parental Suppression of Black Children’s Negative Emotions Adaptive? The Role of Preparation for Racial Bias and Children’s Resting Cardiac Vagal Tone

Dunbar, Angel S.; Zeytinoglu, Selin; Leerkes, Esther M.

doi:10.1007/s10802-021-00779-z

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“…Correspondingly, suppressive emotion socialization predicted more internalizing behaviors, with the prediction varying only in strength rather than direction for European Canadian children with different levels of baseline RSA (Ugarte et al, 2021). Yet in African American families, while suppressive emotion socialization still predicted more internalizing behaviors for sensitive children (high baseline RSA), this type of parenting predicted fewer internalizing behaviors for less‐sensitive children (low baseline RSA; Dunbar et al, 2021).…”

Section: Specificities Of Socialization and Children’s Characteristic...mentioning

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Revisiting goodness of fit in the cultural context: Moving forward from post hoc explanations

Dong

Dubas

Deković

2022

Child Dev Perspectives

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The goodness-of-fit model, which proposes that developmental outcomes result from combinations of environmental and children's factors, has contributed substantially to the recognition of person × environment processes. However, which pattern of person × environment interactions characterizes this model remains unclear, making it difficult to test or compare with other models (e.g., the differentialsusceptibility model). In this article, we offer solutions for these issues. We propose that a contrastive effect pattern best summarizes both goodness of fit and poorness of fit. We outline methodological considerations that help determine whether a person × environment interaction supports the goodness-of-fit model. We then discuss how person × environment interactions can be culturally specific, an issue aligned with the goodness-of-fit model but not other models. We illustrate cultural specificities in socialization-by-temperament interactions with evidence from different sociocultural groups. These theoretical and methodological refinements help clarify how person × environment interactions can be interpreted and predicted by the goodness-of-fit model.

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Section: Specificities Of Socialization and Children’s Characteristic...mentioning

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Revisiting goodness of fit in the cultural context: Moving forward from post hoc explanations

Dong

Dubas

Deković

2022

Child Dev Perspectives

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“…Several articles included in this special issue highlight parent emotion socialization throughout different developmental stages using cross-sectional designs, with a handful using longitudinal designs (see Table 1). Studies spanned from early childhood (Dunbar et al, 2021;Mckee et al, 2021;Price & Kiel, 2021), to school age (Johnco et al, 2021;Jordan et al, 2021;Moffitt et al, 2021;Trent et al, 2021), through adolescence (Berla et al, 2021;Breaux et al, 2021;Fredrick & Luebbe, 2021;McQuade et al, 2021;McKone et al, 2021;Otterpohl et al, 2021;Oddo et al, 2020;Rapp et al, 2021;White et al, 2021;Watson et al, 2021).…”

Section: Developmental Unfolding Of Parent Emotion Socializationmentioning

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“…In other words, parents scaffold the emotion socialization process when children are first beginning to recognize, understand, and express emotions. Two articles in this special issue examined emotion socialization in early childhood and found that parent emotion socialization was associated with child emotion regulation, using cross-sectional (Dunbar et al, 2021) and longitudinal (Price & Kiel, 2021) designs. Specifically, Dunbar and colleagues' findings suggest that preparing children for potential racial biases may help reduce externalizing behaviors.…”

Section: Developmental Unfolding Of Parent Emotion Socializationmentioning

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Transdiagnostic Implications of Parental Socialization of Child and Adolescent Emotional Development: Commentary and Future Directions

Chronis‐Tuscano

Bui

Lorenzo

2021

Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol

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This special issue consists of 23 articles focusing on parent socialization of emotion in children and adolescents as a transdiagnostic factor for the development of psychopathology. The papers in this special issue span various emotion socialization domains, methodologies, ages, and clinical and non-clinical populations, highlighting the promise, as well as complexities of, such transactional work. Our goals for this commentary include synthesizing the articles, highlighting common themes, and suggesting future research initiatives involving measurement, developmental, and cultural considerations. It is our hope that the research presented in this special issue will inspire future, high-quality research on this topic and ultimately improve outcomes for children and adolescents at risk for poor emotion regulation and psychopathology.

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“…For example, caregivers’ punitive or minimizing responses (i.e., suppression responses) to children’s negative emotions are often linked to poorer child emotion regulation (including reported, observed, and psychophysiological indicators; Morris et al, 2017 ). However, for Black children, caregivers’ suppression responses to negative emotions, when paired with racial socialization strategies, are associated with an indicator of more adaptive physiological regulation, fewer externalizing problems at age 5 (Dunbar et al, 2021 ) and fewer depressive symptoms in adulthood (Dunbar et al, 2015 ).…”

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“…For example, for European American children, parental suppression responses have been linked to poorer emotion regulation (Morris et al, 2017 ). Yet, for Latin American and Black children, parental suppression of negative emotion expressions is not associated with poorer outcomes (Labella, 2018 ; Pintar Breen et al, 2018 ); in fact, it appears to be associated with better physiological regulation and mental health if paired with adaptive racial socialization practices (Dunbar et al, 2015 , 2021 ). Researchers posit that these ethnoracial differences reflect the fact that Latin American and Black parents’ suppression of their children’s negative emotions—when contextualized within the sociopolitical context that Black and Brown children are disproportionately treated punitively in a variety of settings (e.g., in school, by law enforcement)—is adaptive because it prepares these children for bias.…”

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Conceptualizing Emotion Regulation and Coregulation as Family-Level Phenomena

Paley

Hajal

2022

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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The ability to regulate one’s emotions is foundational for healthy development and functioning in a multitude of domains, whereas difficulties in emotional regulation are recognized as a risk factor for a range of adverse outcomes in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Caregivers play a key role in cultivating the development of emotion regulation through coregulation, or the processes by which they provide external support or scaffolding as children navigate their emotional experiences. The vast majority of research to date has examined coregulation in the context of caregiver–child dyads. In this paper, we consider emotion regulation and coregulation as family-level processes that unfold within and across multiple family subsystems and explore how triadic and whole family interactions may contribute to the development of children’s emotion regulation skills. Furthermore, we will examine the implications of a family-centered perspective on emotion regulation for prevention of and intervention for childhood emotional and behavioral disorders. Because emotion regulation skills undergo such dramatic maturation during children’s first several years of life, much of our focus will be on coregulation within and across the family system during early childhood; however, as many prevention and intervention approaches are geared toward school-aged children and adolescents, we will also devote some attention to later developmental periods.

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When is Parental Suppression of Black Children’s Negative Emotions Adaptive? The Role of Preparation for Racial Bias and Children’s Resting Cardiac Vagal Tone

Cited by 38 publications

References 43 publications

Revisiting goodness of fit in the cultural context: Moving forward from post hoc explanations

Revisiting goodness of fit in the cultural context: Moving forward from post hoc explanations

Transdiagnostic Implications of Parental Socialization of Child and Adolescent Emotional Development: Commentary and Future Directions

Conceptualizing Emotion Regulation and Coregulation as Family-Level Phenomena

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