The goal of this special issue was to compile current evidence delineating the impact of emotion-related socialization behaviors (ERSBs) on children’s emotion, self-regulation, and developmental outcomes.
Special issue contributors focused on longitudinal studies including ERSBs, reviews of the literature extending the original model, and the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve the emotional lives of children and their families.
Special Issue Editors
Table of contents
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- Introduction to the Special Issue: Socialization of Emotion and Self-Regulation: Understanding Processes and Application
Tracy L. Spinrad, Amanda Sheffield Morris, and Suniya S. Luthar
Predicting Parental Emotion Socialization
- The Intergenerational Transmission of Emotion Socialization
Esther M. Leerkes, Lauren G. Bailes, and Mairin E. Augustine - Parental Emotion and Emotion Regulation: A Critical Target of Study for Research and Intervention to Promote Child Emotion Socialization
Nastassia J. Hajal and Blair Paley
Understanding the Processes of Parental Socialization of Emotion and Regulation
- An Empirical Test of the Model of Socialization of Emotion: Maternal and Child Contributors to Preschoolers' Emotion Knowledge and Adjustment
Stephanie F. Thompson, Maureen Zalewski, Cara J. Kiff, Lyndsey Moran, Rebecca Cortes, and Liliana J. Lengua - The Significance of Early Parent-Child Attachment for Emerging Regulation: A Longitudinal Investigation of Processes and Mechanisms From Toddler Age to Preadolescence
Lea J. Boldt, Kathryn C. Goffin, and Grazyna Kochanska - Positive Parenting, Effortful Control, and Developmental Outcomes Across Early Childhood
Tricia K. Neppl, Shinyoung Jeon, Olivia Diggs, and M. Brent Donnellan - Longitudinal Associations Between Mothers' and Fathers' Anger/Irritability Expressiveness, Harsh Parenting, and Adolescents' Socioemotional Functioning in Nine Countries
Laura Di Giunta, W. Andrew Rothenberg, Carolina Lunetti, Jennifer E. Lansford, Concetta Pastorelli, Nancy Eisenberg, Eriona Thartori, Emanuele Basili, Ainzara Favini, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Liane Peña Alampay, Suha M. Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Kenneth A. Dodge, Paul Oburu, Ann T. Skinner, Emma Sorbring, Laurence Steinberg, Sombat Tapanya, and Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado - Emotion Talk in Chinese American Immigrant Families and Longitudinal Links to Children's Socioemotional Competence
Kaley Curtis, Qing Zhou, and Annie Tao - Parent Socialization of Emotion in a High-Risk Sample
Stephanie A. Godleski,Rina D. Eiden, Shannon Shisler, and Jennifer A. Livingston
Neurological and Physiological Methods
- Maternal Emotion Socialization in Early Childhood Predicts Adolescents' Amygdala-vmPFC Functional Connectivity to Emotion Faces
Xi Chen, Ethan M. McCormick, Niyantri Ravindran, Nancy L. McElwain, and Eva H. Telzer - A Review of Associations Between Parental Emotion Socialization Behaviors and the Neural Substrates of Emotional Reactivity and Regulation in Youth
Patricia Z. Tan,Caroline W. Oppenheimer, Cecile D. Ladouceur, Rosalind D. Butterfield, and Jennifer S. Silk - Parental Support of Self-Regulation Among Children at Risk for Externalizing Symptoms: Developmental Trajectories of Physiological Regulation and Behavioral Adjustment
Xutong Zhang, Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp, Gregory M. Fosco, and Karen L. Bierman - Maternal Socialization of Child Emotion and Adolescent Adjustment: Indirect Effects Through Emotion Regulation
Nicole B. Perry, Jessica M. Dollar, Susan D. Calkins, Susan P. Keane, and Lilly Shanahan
Dynamic and Dyadic Processes
- Emotion Socialization as a Dynamic Process Across Emotion Contexts
Jessica P. Lougheed,Miriam Brinberg, Nilam Ram, and Tom Hollenstein - The Role of Dynamic, Dyadic Parent–Child Processes in Parental Socialization of Emotion
Erika Lunkenheimer,Catherine M. Hamby, Frances M. Lobo, Pamela M. Cole, and Sheryl L. Olson
A Focus on Non-Parental Socializers
- Emotion-Related Socialization in the Classroom: Considering the Roles of Teachers, Peers, and the Classroom Context
Carlos Valiente, Jodi Swanson, Dawn DeLay, Ashley M. Fraser, and Julia H. Parker - Longitudinal Links Between Maternal and Peer Emotion Socialization and Adolescent Girls' Socioemotional Adjustment
Lixian Cui,Michael M. Criss, Erin Ratliff, Zezhen Wu, Benjamin J. Houltberg, Jennifer S. Silk, and Amanda Sheffield Morris
Interventions
- Longitudinal Pathways of Family Influence on Child Self-Regulation: The Roles of Parenting, Family Expressiveness, and Maternal Sensitive Guidance in the Context of Child Maltreatment
Ruth Speidel, Lijuan Wang, E. Mark Cummings, and Kristin Valentino - Tuning in to Teens: Investigating Moderators of Program Effects and Mechanisms of Change of an Emotion Focused Group Parenting Program
Christiane E. Kehoe, Sophie S. Havighurst, and Ann E. Harley - An Emotion Coaching Parenting Intervention for Families Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Lynn Fainsilber Katz, Kyrill Gurtovenko, Ashley Maliken, Nicole Stettler, Joy Kawamura, and Kaitlyn Fladeboe - Growth Trajectories of Parental Emotion Socialization and Child Adjustment Following a Military Parenting Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Na Zhang, Sun-Kyung Lee, Jingchen Zhang, Timothy Piehler, and Abigail Gewirtz
Commentary
- Findings, Issues, and New Directions for Research on Emotion Socialization
Nancy Eisenberg

