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This research aims to explore the relationships between mothers' emotion regulation, their socialization behaviors, and their children's emotion regulation over time.

February 2, 2026

Longitudinal associations among maternal emotion regulation, maternal emotion-related socialization behaviors, and children's emotion regulation

Key Points

This research aims to explore the relationships between mothers' emotion regulation, their socialization behaviors, and their children's emotion regulation over time.
Conducted three lab visits with 98 American mother-child pairs over 6 months.
Assessed maternal emotion regulation, emotion-related socialization behaviors, and child emotion regulation using multiple methods.
Analyzed longitudinal associations, controlling for autoregressive effects.
Found significant longitudinal associations between maternal emotion regulation, socialization behaviors, and child emotion regulation.
Indirect effects between the variables did not achieve statistical significance.
Demonstrated nuanced patterns of emotion regulation transmission across generations.

Abstract

Abstract Parents’ emotion regulation (ER) may relate to their emotion-related socialization behaviors (ERSBs) and their children's ER, yet longitudinal, multimethod research on these constructs is limited. Ninety-eight American mothers (Mage = 34.83) and their 6- to 8-year-olds (Mage = 6.89; 54.1% girls; 49% White) completed three lab visits, 6 months apart, in 2023 and 2024. Maternal ER, ERSBs, and child ER were assessed with multimethod batteries. There were longitudinal associations among unique components of maternal ER, maternal ERSBs, and child ER, over and above autoregressive controls; however, indirect effects did not reach statistical significance. Findings demonstrate nuanced patterns of ER transmission across generations among racially and socioeconomically diverse families.

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