Department of Psychology.
J Fam Psychol. 2018 Aug;32(5):565-574. doi: 10.1037/fam0000425. Epub 2018 Jun 21.
Children who witness violence are at risk for developing a range of developmental problems, including deficits in understanding and regulating. The ability to adaptively manage emotions is associated with children's mental health and their social and academic competence; however, little is known about how parents of at-risk youth can foster the healthy development of emotion regulation. The current study aimed to identify specific parenting practices associated with adaptive emotion regulation in at-risk preschoolers. Multimethod, multi-informant data were collected from 124 caregiver-child dyads from Head Start programs. Results indicated that interparental aggression was negatively associated with caregivers' and children's emotion regulation, but there were specific caregiver behaviors that moderated the association between interparental aggression and children's emotion regulation. Specifically, caregivers' sensitivity to children's emotions during play, listening effectively to children's expression of sadness, and their own capacity for emotion regulation buffered the association between exposure to interparental aggression and children's emotion regulation. These findings provide practical insight into how parents can promote resilience in children exposed to violence by fostering healthy emotional regulation. (PsycINFO Database Record
目睹暴力的儿童面临一系列发展问题的风险，包括理解和调节能力的缺陷。适应性情绪管理能力与儿童的心理健康以及他们的社交和学业能力有关；然而，对于处于危险中的青年的父母如何培养健康的情绪调节能力，人们知之甚少。本研究旨在确定与处于危险中的学龄前儿童适应性情绪调节相关的特定养育实践。从“先普拉斯计划”的 124 对照顾者-儿童二人组中收集了多方法、多信息源的数据。结果表明，父母间的攻击行为与照顾者和儿童的情绪调节呈负相关，但存在特定的照顾者行为可以调节父母间攻击行为与儿童情绪调节之间的关系。具体来说，在游戏中照顾者对孩子情绪的敏感性、有效倾听孩子对悲伤的表达以及他们自己的情绪调节能力缓冲了暴露于父母间攻击行为与孩子情绪调节之间的关系。这些发现为父母如何通过培养健康的情绪调节来促进遭受暴力的儿童的适应能力提供了实际的见解。
