scholarly journals Children's Emotion Regulation and Attachment to Parents: Parental Emotion Socialization as a Moderator

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 969-984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emine Ahmetoglu ◽  
Gökçen Ilhan Ildiz ◽  
Ibrahim H. Acar ◽  
Amy Encinger
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Emotion Socialization ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Turkish Children ◽  
Parental Emotion ◽  
Children's Emotion ◽  
Story Completion ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Parental Emotion Socialization

We examined the associations among parental emotion socialization, and children's emotion regulation and attachment to parents. In particular, we examined the moderating role of parental emotion socialization in the relationship between children's emotion regulation and attachment to parents. Participants were 78 Turkish children (49 boys) aged from 60 to 77 months and their parents. Parents reported on the socialization strategies they used for their children's emotions and on their children's emotion regulation, and we assessed children's attachment to parents via the Doll Story Completion Task. Results revealed that parents' minimization reaction to children's emotions moderated the association between children's emotion regulation and attachment to parents. When parents' response was punitive, children with poor emotion regulation displayed stronger attachment to parents than children with robust emotion regulation did. In addition, girls had a more secure attachment to parents than boys did. Our results highlight the importance of children's emotion regulation and parental emotion socialization for children's secure early attachment to parents.

scholarly journals A Conceptual Model of the Intergenerational Transmission of Emotion Dysregulation in Mothers with a History of Childhood Maltreatment

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Sarah J. Cabecinha-Alati ◽  
Rachel Langevin ◽  
Tina C. Montreuil
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Emotion Socialization ◽  
History Of Childhood ◽  
Parental Emotion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Parental Emotion Socialization

Objectives: Adults with a history of childhood maltreatment report problems with emotion regulation (ER) and parenting, which can contribute to maladaptive outcomes in offspring. The following narrative review consists of a theoretical and empirical synthesis of the literature examining child maltreatment, emotion regulation, and parenting, with an emphasis on parental emotion socialization. Method: Building upon the literature contained in the review, we developed a novel conceptual model that elucidates some of the mechanisms involved in the intergenerational transmission of emotion dysregulation among mothers with a history of childhood maltreatment. Taking into account risk and protective factors (e.g., socio-economic status, polyvictimization, teenage motherhood, access to social supports), our conceptual model highlights both direct (e.g., social learning) and indirect (e.g., ER difficulties) mechanisms through which child maltreatment contributes to problems with parental emotion socialization and ER difficulties in the next generation. Implications: Directions for future research and implications for intervention will be discussed with an emphasis on preventing the continuity of maladaptive parenting by promoting the development of parents’ ER abilities in a trauma-informed, resilience-focused framework.

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