The role of parental emotion regulation in parent emotion socialization: Implications for intervention

Abstract

With a growing body of literature demonstrating the link between parent emotion socialization (the way in which parents model, react to, or teach children about emotions) and children’s emotional competence, there is an increasing interest in identifying the determinants of parent emotion socialization. Stress and the way parents regulate their emotional responses to stress are understood to play a significant role in determining parents’ capacity to socialize children’s emotional learning in positive ways. When parents have difficulty managing their own emotional responses (e.g., under conditions of high stress), their efforts to parent effectively and socialize their children’s emotional l..