Citation

Katz LF, Hunter E, Klowden A. J. Fam. Psychol. 2008; 22(4): 614-621.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. katzlf@u.washington.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/a0012793

PMID

18729675

PMCID

PMC2950618

Abstract

The current study examined the relation between intimate partner violence (IPV) and children's reactions to a stressful peer interaction in a community-based sample. The moderating role of parental emotion coaching in buffering children from negative reactions to a peer was also examined. Children participated in a peer provocation paradigm and mothers completed the Parent Meta-Emotion Interview. Both adaptive (i.e., laughing, ignoring) and maladaptive (i.e., hostile/challenging, odd behaviors) reactions to the provocative peer were examined. IPV was positively related to children's laughing and odd behaviors but was unrelated to ignoring and hostile/challenging behaviors. Additionally, emotion coaching was found to moderate relations between IPV and children's laughing and odd behaviors. The importance of understanding protective factors in families experiencing IPV and of developing emotion coaching parenting programs is discussed.

Language: en