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Associations Between Parental Attitudes and the Development of Emotion Regulation Abstract This study examined the relations between maternal attitudes concerning emotional expression, temperament, and emotion regulation. Subjects were 51 (20 girls) preschool-age children and their mothers. Maternal attitudes regarding children's emotional expression were associated with a parent-report measure concerning children's emotional reactions in the home, and with children's emotion regulation behavior during a mildly-frustrating laboratory delay situation. Maternal attitudes that encouraged children to limit their emotional expression were positively associated with mother-reported negative reactivity and negatively associated with mother-reported positive emotionality. Additionally, attitudes that encouraged children to limit their emotional expression were positively associated with children's use of self-directed emotion regulation strategies and negatively associated with children's use of other-directed regulatory strategies during the laboratory assessment.
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