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Parents’ emotion control beliefs: Links with responses to children’s negative emotions, child well-being, and parent–child relationship quality.

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: = 139), we found that parents' emotion control beliefs longitudinally (4 months later) predicted worse child well-being and lower parent-child relationship quality. These links were accounted for by parents providing less supportive and more disapproving responses to their children's emotions. Moreover, these links were relatively generalizable across parents' and children's gender and age (Studies 1-3) as well as parents' ethnicity (Study 3). Together, these findings suggest that parents' emotion control beliefs may influence how they respond to their children's emotions-often for the worse-subsequently shaping the child's well-being and the quality of the parent-child relationship. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Source: Emotion

DOI: 10.1037/emo0001680

Authors: Regina N. Ebo, Felicia K. Zerwas, Brett Q. Ford, Helena R. Karnilowicz, Benjamin L. Hankin, Iris B. Mauss

Institutions: University of California, Berkeley, New York University, University of Toronto, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: English

Topic: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Ford Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, National Institute of Mental Health