title: Parental Emotion Coaching and Child Emotion Regulation as Protective Factors for Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
abstract: We assessed linkages of mothers' emotion coaching and children's emotion regulation and emotion lability/negativity with children's adjustment in 72 mother-child dyads seeking treatment for Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). Dyads completed questionnaires and discussed emotion-related family events. Maternal emotion coaching was associated with children's emotion regulation, which in turn was related to higher mother-reported adaptive skills, higher child-reported internalizing symptoms, and lower child-reported adjustment. When children were high in emotion lability/negativity, mothers' emotion coaching was associated with lower mother and child reports of externalizing behavior. Results suggest the role of emotion regulation and emotion lability in child awareness of socio-emotional problems and support the potential of maternal emotion coaching as a protective factor for children with ODD, especially for those high in emotion lability.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech.
authors.forename: Julie C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Dunsmore
authors.forename: Jordan A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Booker
authors.forename: Thomas H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Ollendick
keywords: Oppositional Defiant Disorder; emotion coaching; emotion lability; emotion regulation