Longitudinal Relations Among Parental Emotional Expressivity, Children's Regulation, and Quality of Socioemotional Functioning

The role of regulation as a mediator of the relations between maternal emotional expressivity and children's adjustment and social competence was examined when children ( N = 208) were 4.5 to just 8 years old (Time 1, T1) and 2 years later (Time 2, T2). At T2, as at T1, regulation mediated the...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 2003-01, Vol.39 (1), p.3-19
Main Authors: Eisenberg, Nancy, Valiente, Carlos, Morris, Amanda Sheffield, Fabes, Richard A, Cumberland, Amanda, Reiser, Mark, Gershoff, Elizabeth Thompson, Shepard, Stephanie A, Losoya, Sandra
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjustment
Affect
Age Differences
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Behavior - psychology
Child development
Child psychology
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Developmental psychology
Emotional Adjustment
Emotional Development
Emotional Experience
Emotional Expression
Emotional Regulation
Emotionality (Personality)
Emotions
Expressed emotions
Family
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Interpersonal Competence
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Mediating Factors
Mothers
Parent Influence
Parent-Child Relations
Parental Characteristics
Parents
Parents & parenting
Parents - psychology
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Social Adjustment
Social Behavior
Social Control, Formal - methods
Social psychology
Social Skills
Socioemotional development
Socioemotional Functioning
Surveys and Questionnaires
Young children
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Summary:The role of regulation as a mediator of the relations between maternal emotional expressivity and children's adjustment and social competence was examined when children ( N = 208) were 4.5 to just 8 years old (Time 1, T1) and 2 years later (Time 2, T2). At T2, as at T1, regulation mediated the relation between positive maternal emotional expressivity and children's functioning. When T1 relations and the stability of variables over time were controlled for in a structural equation model, T2 relations generally were nonsignificant, although parents' dominant negative expressivity predicted high regulation. In contrast, in regressions, the findings for parent positive expressivity, but not negative expressivity, held at T2 when T1 variables were controlled. Thus, relations for negative expressivity, but not positive expressivity, changed with age.
ISSN:0012-1649
1939-0599
DOI:10.1037/0012-1649.39.1.3