Parental Socialization of Children's Dysregulated Expression of Emotion and Externalizing Problems

The relations of parents' warmth, emotional expressivity, and discussion of emotion to 2nd-5th graders' regulation of emotional expressivity, externalizing problem behaviors, and expressivity were examined. Parents' and children's facial expressions to evocative slides were obser...

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Published in:	Journal of family psychology Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 183 - 205
Main Authors:	Eisenberg, Nancy, Losoya, Sandra, Guthrie, Ivanna K, Murphy, Bridget, Shepard, Stephanie A, Padgett, Sarah J, Fabes, Richard A, Poulin, Rick, Reiser, Mark
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC American Psychological Association 01-06-2001
Subjects:	Affect Behavior Behavior Problems Biological and medical sciences Child Child Behavior Children & youth Emotional Adjustment Emotional Control Emotional regulation Emotionality (Personality) Emotions Expressed emotions Externalization Externalizing behaviour Facial Expression Family environment. Family history Female Human Human Sex Differences Humans Male Medical sciences Parent Child Relations Parents & parenting Parents - psychology Psychology Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry Socialization Surveys and Questionnaires Verbal Communication Young children Human Sex Emotion emotionality Personality Non verbal communication Parent child relation Behavioral disorder School age Social interaction Risk factor Self regulation Face Child Facial expression
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Summary:	The relations of parents' warmth, emotional expressivity, and discussion of emotion to 2nd-5th graders' regulation of emotional expressivity, externalizing problem behaviors, and expressivity were examined. Parents' and children's facial expressions to evocative slides were observed, as was parents' discussion of the slides, and parents and teachers provided information on children's regulation of expressivity and problem behavior. Analyses supported the hypothesis that the effect of parental variables on children's problem behavior was at least partly indirect through their children's regulation of emotion. Children's low negative (versus positive) facial expressivity to negative slides was associated with problem behavior for boys. A reversed model did not support the possibility that children's functioning had causal effects on parenting. The findings suggest that parents' emotion-related behaviors are linked to children's regulation of expressivity and externalizing behaviors.
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ISSN:	0893-3200 1939-1293
DOI:	10.1037/0893-3200.15.2.183