Childhood Maltreatment and Emotion Regulation in the Context of Parenting: Utilization of a Novel Measure of Parental Emotion Regulation

We investigated relations among parents’ retrospective reports of childhood maltreatment, general emotion regulation, and parenting-specific emotion regulation. Results reveal significant associations between childhood maltreatment and parenting-specific emotion regulation. Associations differed by maltreatment subtype and emotion regulation context. This study demonstrates the importance of assessing how maltreatment influences parenting-specific emotion regulation.