Intergenerational transmission of emotion regulation through parents' reactions to children's negative emotions: Tests of unique, actor, partner, and mediating effects

This study examined the unique contributions of paternal and maternal emotion dysregulation to children's emotion regulation and lability, and whether parental emotion dysregulation was transmitted to their children indirectly through their own and their spouses' reactions to children's negative emotions. Participants were 118 couples in families with at least one school-age child in Guangdong province, southern China. Fathers and mothers...