Abstract
This study identified profiles of parental responses to children's positive and negative emotion expression using latent profile analysis and examined socio-cultural, family, parent, and child correlates of these profiles. Parents (N = 870) of children aged 8–12 completed self-report measures of their responses to children's positive and negative emotion expression, ethnicity, income, family expressivity, parent and child emotion regulation and psychopathology. Four profiles of parental emotion socialization emerged: the teach and problem-focused parent, supportive parent, balanced parent, and hyper-engaged parent. These profiles significantly differed by income, ethnicity, family expressivity, parent and child emotion dysregulation and psychopathology symtoms. Parents in the supportive and teach and problem-focused profiles reported enhanced child emotion regulation and fewer child psychopathology symptoms compared to the balanced and hyper-engaged parents. Findings highlight the importance of considering constellations of parent responses to children's broad range of emotions, and socio-cultural, family, parent, and child correlates of these patterns.
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