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Browsing by Subject "Emotion socialization"

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    Emotion Regulation and Socialization in the Context of Cumulative Risk: Social-Emotional Adjustment in Children Experiencing Homelessness
    (2018-08) Labella, Madelyn
    The acquisition of emotion regulation skills is a key developmental task, largely socialized by caregivers, that lays the foundation for healthy social-emotional adjustment. Unfortunately, both parental socialization and children’s self-regulation are disrupted in contexts of high cumulative risk. The current dissertation evaluated emotion regulation and socialization during observed parent-child interaction as predictors of social-emotional adjustment in young children experiencing homelessness. Study 1 used linear regression and latent profile analysis to identify links among child reactivity and regulation, parental affect profiles, and teacher-reported adjustment in the context of risk and adversity. Children’s difficulty down-regulating anger during parent-child interaction was linked to more teacher-reported social-behavioral problems. Empirically-derived profiles of parent affect were related to child behavior during the interaction and in the classroom: the minority of parents showing elevated anger had children who were observed to struggle with anger down-regulation and were reported by teachers to have more social-behavioral problems at school. Sociodemographic risk additionally predicted more social-behavioral problems, controlling for child and parent anger expression. Study 2 built on these findings using dynamic structural equation modeling to investigate dyadic interplay between parent and child anger across the problem-solving discussion. Parents and children showed significant stability in anger from one interval to the next, as well as cross-lagged associations consistent with bidirectional feedback processes and significant novel anger reactivity. Individual differences in child anger stability were related to more social-behavioral problems at school. More observed anger contagion, particularly from child to parent, predicted more parent-reported externalizing problems, as did higher family adversity. Results are interpreted in light of theory and research and future directions are discussed.
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    Emotion socialization in formerly homeless families.
    (2012-04) Davis, Karen Laurel
    Emotional competence in children is increasingly understood as an outcome of parents‟ adaptive socialization behaviors. Parent‟s socialization of children‟s emotions and children‟s emotion competence were examined in a sample of formerly homeless mother-child dyads. Parents‟ supportive responses to children‟s expressed sadness predicted interpersonal and affective strength in children. Parental support for anger significantly predicted interpersonal, intrapersonal, and affective strengths. Qualitative interviews of parents indicated that mothers in formerly homeless families use a variety of both adaptive and maladaptive socialization strategies that have been associated with both resilience and psychopathology in children.
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    Externalizing behavior in post-institutionalized children: an examination of parent emotion socialization practices, respiratory-sinus arrhythmia, and skin conductance
    (2014-05) Herrera, Adriana Marie
    The early experience of social and emotional neglect, such as that seen in institutions for the care of orphaned or abandoned children, is associated with altered neurobiological functioning and elevated risk for externalizing behavior problems; however, many post-institutionalized children appear resilient to these effects. This resiliency calls into question how post-adoption parenting practices may contribute to the heterogeneous outcomes seen in these children. This study examined the moderating role of current parent emotion socialization practices on the relation between early caregiving and indices of children's autonomic nervous system functioning at baseline and in response to ecologically valid challenges. Etiological factors, behavioral, and physiological correlates for externalizing behavior were also examined. The sample consisted of 8 to 9-year-olds, and compared post-institutionalized (PI) internationally-adopted children with children internationally-adopted from foster care (PFC) and children raised by their biological families (NA). Parents self-reported on their encouragement of emotional expression and distress reactions to children's negative emotions. Externalizing behavior was measured by parent report. Children's basal level of respiratory-sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and non-specific skin conductance response (NS.SCR) were measured as well as reactivity to challenge. Results indicated that under conditions of high parental distress, PI children displayed a unique autonomic pattern characterized by high basal RSA, and less RSA withdrawal and greater NS.SCR reactivity within interpersonal contexts involving their parent. High parental distress was associated with lower basal RSA for the PFC group. The PI group evidenced elevated externalizing behaviors compared to comparison groups. Greater externalizing behaviors were seen for those PI children who displayed high basal RSA and NS.SCR augmentation to challenge in the context of high parental distress. Results suggest that post-adoption parenting practices, in conjunction with the child's physiology, contribute to the emergence of externalizing problems in PI children.