Dyadic affect regulation in three caregiving environments.
Investigation of patterns of mother-child affect across three caregiving groups indicated that both adolescent and adult high-social-risk mothers showed less individual positive affect than did adult low-social-risk mothers. High-social-risk adolescent mothers also showed more individual negative affect and participated with their children in more dyadically misregulated affect exchanges than did adult mothers from either high- or low-social-risk environments.
Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans.
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Osofsky
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Barnard
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Leonard
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007223:Infant; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010553:Personality Development; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012951:Socialization