Relationship of maternal negative moods to child emotion regulation during family interaction
Dagne, Getachew Snyder, James J.
Dagne, Getachew
Snyder, James J.
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2011-01-24
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Children,Emotional regulation,Family interaction
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Dagne GA, Snyder J. Relationship of maternal negative moods to child emotion regulation during family interaction. Development and Psychopathology. 2011;23(1):211-223. doi:10.1017/S095457941000074X
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The relationship of maternal hostile and depressive moods to children's downregulation of unprovoked anger and sadness/fear was assessed in a community sample of 267 5-year-old boys and girls. The speed of children's downregulation of unprovoked anger and sadness/fear was based on real-time observations during mother-child interaction. The association of downregulation with maternal mood was estimated using Bayesian event history analysis. As mothers reported higher depressive mood, both boys and girls were faster to downregulate anger displays as those displays accumulated during mother child interaction. The speed of boys' downregulation of anger and of sadness/fear was not associated with maternal hostile mood. As mothers reported more hostile mood, girls were faster to downregulate displays of sadness/fear, but the speed of this downregulation slowed as those displays accumulated during ongoing mother-child interaction. These associations of child downregulation and maternal mood were observed after controlling for child adjustment. The data suggest frequent exposure to different negative maternal moods affect children's expression and regulation of emotions in relatively specific ways, conditional on the type of maternal mood, the type of child emotion, and child gender. © Copyright Cambridge University Press 2011.
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Cambridge University Press
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Development and Psychopathology
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