University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Infant Ment Health J. 2022 Sep;43(5):769-782. doi: 10.1002/imhj.22009. Epub 2022 Aug 1.
Parents' emotion regulation and emotional experiences have important consequences for family well-being and child outcomes. Little is known about whether traitlike emotion regulation abilities predict statelike experiences of real-time negative emotion. Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), this study examines associations between mothers' self-reported emotion regulation abilities and their real-time experiences of negative emotion, as well as the moderating role of caregiving context among 145 mothers (41% Hispanic; 31% earned below $40,000) of young children (mean age = 20.9 months) across a 10-day period. Results indicated that on average, mothers who report high levels of traitlike rumination and difficulties in emotion regulation also report more statelike negative emotion. Further, the presence of children weakened the associations between mothers' traitlike reports of emotion dysregulation and statelike EMA negative emotion reports. The findings demonstrate the importance of parents' emotion regulation for supporting family well-being, especially when parents are separated from their children; the findings may have implications for developing family interventions.
父母的情绪调节能力和情绪体验对家庭幸福和儿童发展有重要影响。目前还不清楚特质性的情绪调节能力是否能预测实时的负面情绪体验。本研究使用生态瞬时评估（EMA）方法，考察了 145 名幼儿母亲（41%为西班牙裔；31%的家庭年收入低于 40000 美元）的自我报告情绪调节能力与其实时负面情绪体验之间的关系，以及在 10 天内育儿环境对其的调节作用。结果表明，平均而言，报告特质性沉思和情绪调节困难程度较高的母亲也报告了更多的实时负面情绪。此外，孩子的存在削弱了母亲特质性情绪失调报告与实时 EMA 负面情绪报告之间的关联。这些发现表明，父母的情绪调节能力对支持家庭幸福非常重要，特别是当父母与孩子分开时；这些发现可能对开发家庭干预措施具有重要意义。
