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Summary
Parents play an important role in helping children regulate their emotions. By observing mothers and children interacting when the children were disappointed, researchers examined the relation between maternal use of emotion regulation strategies and children’s expression of negative emotions. Results revealed that certain maternal strategies were useful in the socialization of children’s negative emotions.
Citation
Morris, A. S., Silk, J. S., Morris, M. D., Steinberg, L., Aucoin, K. J., Keyes, A. W. (2011). The Influence of Mother–Child Emotion Regulation Strategies on Children's Expression of Anger and Sadness. Developmental Psychology, 47, 213. doi:10.1037/a0021021