Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
A Pilot Study of a Parent Emotion Socialization Intervention: Impact on Parent Behavior, Child Self-Regulation, and Adjustment
Originally published 2021-10-15 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.730278 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Respect
When parents report better emotion coaching, what changed for children on independent tasks?
The pilot usefully separates parents’ reported emotion-coaching changes from children’s task-based self-regulation, avoiding an assumption that all outcomes improve together.
Who was studied?
Twenty intervention parents and 19 waitlist controls in a Scandinavian setting
Age / stage: Preschool children aged 5–6 years
Read with three questions
- Which outcomes were reported by parents and which used behavioral tasks?
- Which improvements were not different between intervention and control groups?
- How did nonrandom recruitment and the small sample affect confidence?
Keep the limits in view
The sample was small and not individually randomized. Selection, self-report and multiple comparisons limit certainty; children’s executive-control improvement was not greater than controls.
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Evalill Bølstad; Sophie S Havighurst; Christian K Tamnes; Egil Nygaard; Rune Flaaten Bjørk; Maria Stavrinou; Thomas Espeseth (2021). A Pilot Study of a Parent Emotion Socialization Intervention: Impact on Parent Behavior, Child Self-Regulation, and Adjustment Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.730278
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