Abstract
The prospective relations between five types of parental reactions to children's negative emotions (PRCNE) and children's psychological adjustment (behavioral problems and social competence) were examined in a two-wave longitudinal study of 425 school-age children in China. Parents (mostly mothers) reported their own PRCNE. Parents, teachers, and children or peers reported on children's adjustment. Parental punitive reactions positively predicted externalizing problems (controlling for baseline), whereas emotion- and problem-focused reactions were negatively related to internalizing problems. Parental minimizing and encouragement of emotion expression were unrelated to adjustment. Concurrent relations were found between PRCNE and parents' authoritative and authoritarian parenting dimensions. However, PRCNE did not uniquely predict adjustment controlling for global parenting dimensions. The findings have implications for cultural adaptation of parent-focused interventions for families of Chinese origin. 2010 APA, all rights reserved
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 135-144 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2010 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychology(all)