title: Parental Emotion Coaching: Associations With Self-Regulation in Aggressive/Rejected and Low Aggressive/Popular Children.
abstract: This study investigated associations between maternal and paternal emotion coaching and the self-regulation skills of kindergarten and first-grade children. Participants were 54 children categorized as either aggressive/rejected or low aggressive/popular by peer reports. Findings indicated a statistical trend for fathers of low aggressive/popular children to engage in more emotion coaching than fathers of aggressive/rejected children. Paternal emotion coaching accounted for significant variance in children's regulation of attention. Maternal emotion coaching moderated the relation between children's status and regulation of emotion. Findings suggest that interventions focused on parental emotion coaching may prove beneficial for increasing the self-regulation and attention skills of children with social and conduct problems.
authors: Clinical Psychology Department, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington, USA.
authors: Beverly J
authors: BJ
authors: Wilson
authors: University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
authors: Holly
authors: H
authors: Petaja
authors: Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington, USA.
authors: Jenna
authors: J
authors: Yun
authors: Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington, USA.
authors: Kathleen
authors: K
authors: King
authors: Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington, USA.
authors: Jessica
authors: J
authors: Berg
authors: Kaiser Permanente, Union City, California, USA.
authors: Lindsey
authors: L
authors: Kremmel
authors: Edmonds, Washington, USA.
authors: Diana
authors: D
authors: Cook
keywords: aggressive/rejected children; attention skills; behavior regulation; emotion coaching; emotion regulation; meta-emotion