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Longitudinal Links among Mother and Child Emotion Regulation, Maternal Emotion Socialization, and Child Anxiety

Price, Natalee Naomi
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1654-0146
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564512803649608

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2019, Master of Arts, Miami University, Psychology.
Child anxiety is highly prevalent, with many typically-developing children showing patterns of excessive worry. These anxiety symptoms often emerge in toddlerhood and are highly predictive of children’s later anxiety outcomes, underscoring the importance of early mechanisms (e.g., emotion processes) and contexts (e.g., family environment) involved in anxiety symptoms arising in early childhood. Still, there remains a need for integrative, longitudinal, and multi-method models of family emotion processes that may contribute to child anxiety. The current study examined how mothers’ emotion dysregulation related to their emotion socialization practices (either supportive or unsupportive) and children’s emotion regulation (either attention- or caregiver-focused) over time, with a primary focus on how these emotion processes are relevant to later child anxiety. Results indicated that models tended to fit the data well. Maternal emotion dysregulation consistently predicted child anxiety, and to a lesser extent, relations emerged among emotion processes. Serial mediation was not significant; however, there was one marginally significant indirect effect. Specifically, greater maternal emotion dysregulation predicted greater unsupportive emotion socialization, which in turn related to children’s greater caregiver-focused emotion regulation. These findings lend partial support to current theoretical models of family emotion processes and child anxiety development and suggest promising avenues of future research.
Elizabeth Kiel, Ph.D (Advisor)
Aaron Luebbe, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Jennifer Green, Ph.D (Committee Member)
73 p.
Clinical Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Psychology
emotional development; emotion dysregulation; emotion socialization; emotion regulation; child anxiety; family emotion processes

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  • Price, N. N. (2019). Longitudinal Links among Mother and Child Emotion Regulation, Maternal Emotion Socialization, and Child Anxiety [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564512803649608

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Price, Natalee. Longitudinal Links among Mother and Child Emotion Regulation, Maternal Emotion Socialization, and Child Anxiety . 2019. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564512803649608.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Price, Natalee. "Longitudinal Links among Mother and Child Emotion Regulation, Maternal Emotion Socialization, and Child Anxiety ." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564512803649608

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