Parental Emotion Socialization and its Associations to Internalizing Symptoms: The Influence of Parent Gender and Emotion Understanding

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Works, Merrimack Scholar Sanders, Wesley Mark
Copyright Year	2019
Abstract	PAGE Little research has examined how fathers and mothers socialize their children's emotion in similar or unique ways and the influence of different emotion socialization strategies on children's psychological functioning. Mothers (n = 51) and fathers (n = 51) completed measures of their emotion understanding, their emotion socialization strategies, and their children's emotion management. Daughters (n = 22) and sons (n = 29) in the 3rd-5th grades (M age = 9.7) completed a measure of depressive symptoms. Using regression analyses and a path analytic model, the findings indicate significant pathways from parental emotion understanding to their subsequent use of emotion socialization strategies, which are associated with their child's emotion management strategies and depressive symptoms For fathers, emotional clarity predicted to their use of coaching and dismissing socialization strategies with sadness. Emotion coaching strategies directly predicted to depressive symptoms whereas emotion dismissing strategies predicted to sadness coping, dysregulation, and depressive symptoms with their children. For mothers, poor emotional awareness predicted to the use of dismissing socialization strategies for anger, as well as a direct pathway to depressive symptoms. The dismissing style for anger predicted to anger coping and dysregulation in children, but only anger coping for children predicted to depressive symptoms. Table o f
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