Parental Emotion Socialization Predicts Early Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation

A Longitudinal and Multimethod Examination in Trauma-Exposed Families

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ID11670610
AutoresCatie A Greene (0000-0002-2371-8029, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, autor correspondente), Sarah A O Gray (0000-0002-7592-3702, University of Connecticut School of Medicine), Elizabeth A Skowron (0000-0002-6612-807X, University of Oregon), Margaret J Briggs‐Gowan (0000-0002-5826-5998, University of Connecticut), Margaret J Briggs-Gowan (University of Connecticut School of Medicine)
Ano2025
Volume46
Fascículo5
Páginas746-766
Data de publicação2025-05-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Early Adolescence (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0272-4316 • E-ISSN: 1552-5449
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/02724316251347288
PMID40857523
OpenAlexW4410876421
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas43

Bolstering emerging adolescents' emotion regulation may help promote resilience to emotional disorders. This may be especially critical among offspring of parents who have experienced trauma, who are at increased risk of mental health problems. This study examines the influence of parental emotion socialization on emerging adolescents' behavioral and physiological regulation. Thirty-two parents who experienced interpersonal trauma and their 9- to 12-year-old emerging adolescents (M ageT1 = 10.8 years; M ageT2 = 11.5 years) completed reports of parental emotion socialization behaviors at baseline, and reports of youth's emotion coping, emotionally dysregulated behaviors, and affective symptoms at follow-up. Youth's RSA reactivity was also assessed. Parents' unsupportive responses predicted youth's behavioral dysregulation and less adaptive physiological regulation, and parents' supportive responses predicted youth's coping behaviors. Youth's behavioral and physiological regulation was concurrently associated with their affective symptoms. These findings suggest that parental emotion socialization plays a critical role in emerging adolescents' physiological and behavioral regulation

Developmental psychology · Longitudinal study · Negative emotion · Socialization · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum · Medicine · Psychology