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Parental Emotion Coaching: Associations With Self-Regulation in Aggressive/Rejected and Low Aggressive/Popular Children |
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| Authors: | Beverly J. Wilson Holly Petaja PhD Jenna Yun PhD Kathleen King PhD Jessica Berg MS Lindsey Kremmel PhD |
| Affiliation: | 1. Clinical Psychology Department , Seattle Pacific University , Seattle , Washington , USA bjwilson@spu.edu;3. Department of Psychiatry &4. Behavioral Sciences , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington , USA;5. Clinical Psychology Department , Seattle Pacific University , Seattle , Washington , USA;6. Kaiser Permanente , Union City , California , USA |
| Abstract: | This study investigated associations between maternal and paternal emotion coaching and the self-regulation skills of kindergarten and first-grade children. Participants were 54 children categorized as either aggressive/rejected or low aggressive/popular by peer reports. Findings indicated a statistical trend for fathers of low aggressive/popular children to engage in more emotion coaching than fathers of aggressive/rejected children. Paternal emotion coaching accounted for significant variance in children's regulation of attention. Maternal emotion coaching moderated the relation between children's status and regulation of emotion. Findings suggest that interventions focused on parental emotion coaching may prove beneficial for increasing the self-regulation and attention skills of children with social and conduct problems. |
| Keywords: | aggressive/rejected children attention skills behavior regulation emotion coaching emotion regulation meta-emotion |