Citation

Wilson BJ, Petaja H, Yun J, King K, Berg J, Kremmel L, Cook D. Child Fam. Behav. Ther. 2014; 36(2): 81-106.

Affiliation

Edmonds, Washington, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/07317107.2014.910731

PMID

25071301

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.

Language: en