Predicting children's emotion regulation behaviors from maternal emotion socialization and vagal suppression
Year: 2010
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The relation between early maternal emotion socialization and children's emotion regulation behaviors were examined across a short-term longitudinal study. Participants were 196 children with data collected at age 3.5 and 4.5-years-old. It was hypothesized that children's vagal suppression at age 4.5 would partially mediate the association between maternal emotion socialization and children's emotion regulation behaviors. To assess maternal emotion socialization, mothers completed the Coping with Children's Negative Emotions (CCNES) questionnaire and a supportive and non-supportive aggregate were created. To assess children's emotion regulation behaviors mothers completed the Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC) and trained research assistants coded a laboratory frustration task for observed emotion regulation behaviors. Results indicate that emotion socialization did not predict vagal suppression or emotion regulation behaviors. Further, vagal suppression was not associated with emotion regulation behaviors. Thus, a mediation effect was not present. Results are discussed in terms of directions for future research.
Author: Nicole Brown
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1565042400