ROLE OF PARENTS’ COGNITIVE REAPPRAISAL AND EXPRESSIVE SUPPRESSION STRATEGIES ON THEIR CHILDREN’S EMOTION REGULATION
Keywords:
Parental Cognitive Reappraisal (CR), Parental Expressive Suppression (ES), Children’s Emotional Lability;, Children’s Negativity, Children’s Emotional RegulationAbstract
Objectives: To investigate the role of parent’s cognitive reappraisal (CR) and expressive suppressive (ES) strategies on their children’s emotion regulation
Design of the study: The current study is conducted using a correlational research design
Place and duration of the study: The study concluded in 2023, and it was carried out in Karachi, Pakistan.
Sample and Method: 100 parents (50 fathers & 50 mothers) in the age bracket of 28 to 55 years through the snowball sampling method were included. Parents were required to have at least one child aged between 5 to 10 years. The first hypothesis proposed that parents' CR and ES would predict emotional lability/negativity in their children. The second hypothesis further posited that parents’ CR and ES would predict children’s emotion regulation. These proposed relationships between analyzed components were studied by utilizing Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ, Gross & John ,2003) and (Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC, Shields & Cicchetti,1995).
Results and Conclusion: Findings show ES significantly predicted children’s emotional lability, whereas CR did not. Nonetheless, both parental strategies were significant predictors of children’s overall emotion regulation.
