Emotion Socialization and Behavior Problems in Middle Childhood: A Moderated Mediation Model of Parent–Child Attachment and Children’s Emotion Dysregulation

It is found that child emotion regulation/dysregulation mediated the link between parents’ emotion socialization and child internalizing symptoms. Parent–child attachment moderated the relationship between parental reactions and child emotion dysregulation. When the attachment was high, children benefited from parental supportive reactions but were vulnerable to the unsupportive reactions.