APS

2023 APS Annual Convention · 2023

Parental Emotion Coaching Predicts Lower Child Distress in Families Experiencing Homelessness

Washington, DC · May 2023

Poster · Personality/Emotion

  • Skylar Raynor
  • Rachel Foster
  • Ann Masten
    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  • Madelyn Labella
    William & Mary

Abstract

The current study examined relationships among sociodemographic characteristics, parent attitudes toward child emotions, and child emotion outcomes in families experiencing homelessness. Findings indicated that child race and parental emotion coaching each uniquely predicted observed child distress, but not teacher-reported emotion regulation, in young children experiencing adversity.

Childhood Adversity

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