Coparental Affect, Children's Emotion Dysregulation, and Parent and Child Depressive Symptoms

Children's emotion dysregulation and depressive symptoms are known to be affected by a range of individual (parent, child) and systemic (parent–child, marital, and family) characteristics. The current study builds on this literature by examining the unique role of coparental affect in children&...

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Veröffentlicht in:Family process 2017-03, Vol.56 (1), p.126-140
Hauptverfasser: Thomassin, Kristel, Suveg, Cynthia, Davis, Molly, Lavner, Justin A., Beach, Steven R. H.
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Zusammenfassung:Children's emotion dysregulation and depressive symptoms are known to be affected by a range of individual (parent, child) and systemic (parent–child, marital, and family) characteristics. The current study builds on this literature by examining the unique role of coparental affect in children's emotion dysregulation, and whether this association mediates the link between parent and child depressive symptoms. Participants were 51 mother–father–child triads with children aged 7 to 12 (M age = 9.24 years). Triads discussed a time when the child felt sad and a time when the child felt happy. Maternal and paternal displays of positive affect were coded, and sequential analyses examined the extent to which parents were congruent in their displays of positive affect during the emotion discussions. Results indicated that interparental positive affect congruity (IPAC) during the sadness discussion, but not the happiness discussion, uniquely predicted parent‐reported child emotion dysregulation, above and beyond the contributions of child negative affect and parental punitive reactions. The degree of IPAC during the sadness discussion and child emotion dysregulation mediated the association between maternal, but not paternal, depressive symptoms and child depressive symptoms. Findings highlight the unique role of coparental affect in the socialization of sadness in youth and offer initial support for low levels of IPAC as a risk factor for the transmission of depressive symptoms in youth. Se sabe que diversas características individuales (padre/madre, niño/a) y sistémicas (padre/niño/a, conyugales y familiares) influyen en la disregulación emocional y los síntomas depresivos de los niños. El presente estudio se basa en esta bibliografía y examina el rol exclusivo que desempeñan los sentimientos de ambos padres en la disregulación emocional de los niños, y si esta asociación sirve de mediadora del vínculo entre los síntomas depresivos de los padres y los niños. Los participantes fueron 51 tríadas madre‐padre‐hijo/a con niños de entre 7 y 12 años (M edad = 9.24 años). Las tríadas hablaron de un momento en el cual el/la niño/a se sintió triste y de un momento en el cual se sintió feliz. Se codificaron las demostraciones maternas y paternas de sentimientos positivos, y los análisis secuenciales examinaron el grado hasta el cual los padres fueron congruentes en sus demostraciones de sentimientos positivos durante las charlas sobre las emociones. Los resultados indicaron
ISSN:0014-7370
1545-5300
DOI:10.1111/famp.12184