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Published on: February 11, 2017

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Child aggression and parenting behavior: Understanding the child-driven effects with parents' emotion regulation as a

Sisi Tao1, Eva Yi Hung Lau2

  • 1Centre for Information Technology in Education, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong.

Journal of Family Psychology : JFP : Journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)
|March 23, 2023
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Parental emotion regulation strategies, specifically suppression, moderate the link between child aggression and coercive parenting. High suppression amplifies the impact of child aggression on mothers' coercive behaviors.

Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Family Studies
  • Clinical Psychology

Background:

  • Child aggression and coercive parenting are significant concerns in child development.
  • Parental emotion regulation strategies may influence parenting behaviors.
  • Understanding these dynamics is crucial for effective interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine longitudinal relations between child aggression and coercive parenting.
  • To investigate the moderating role of parental emotion regulation strategies (suppression, reappraisal) in these relations.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal study with 168 children and their parents.
  • Data collected at two time points (T1 and T2, ~6 months apart).
  • Measures included parental self-reports of coercive behaviors and emotion regulation strategies, and child aggression assessment.

Main Results:

  • Parental suppression moderated the link between child aggression and mothers' coercive parenting.
  • High maternal suppression amplified the association between child overt aggression and coercive parenting.
  • High maternal suppression also increased the association between child covert aggression and psychological control.

Conclusions:

  • Parental emotion regulation, particularly suppression, plays a critical role in the child aggression-coercive parenting cycle.
  • Findings highlight the importance of targeting parental emotion regulation in interventions for aggressive children.
  • Reappraisal strategies did not show a moderating effect.

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