Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 2 · Licensed source edition
Maternal Emotion Coaching and Child Emotion Regulation: Within-Interaction Sequences in Early Childhood
Originally published 2025-01-11 · Affective Science
Springer · DOI 10.1007/s42761-024-00285-7 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Respect
What happens in the moments just after I name my child’s frustration?
Coded sequences show how researchers distinguish an adult coaching move from what the child does immediately afterward.
Who was studied?
Preschool children and mothers observed doing a shared drawing task in the southeastern United States.
Age / stage: Ages 3–4
Read with three questions
- What counted as coaching, and how soon afterward did the researchers code the child’s response?
- Which parts of the interaction were directly observed and which were inferred or reported?
- What happens in the moments just after I name my child’s frustration?
Keep the limits in view
The study measures behaviors or experiences in a particular sample and setting. It cannot establish the effect of changing a response in an individual family.
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Danhua Zhu; Fantasy T Lozada; Cynthia L Smith; Martha Ann Bell; Julie C Dunsmore (2025). Maternal Emotion Coaching and Child Emotion Regulation: Within-Interaction Sequences in Early Childhood Affective Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-024-00285-7
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