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1-055 - Attachment and Family Influences on Children’s Emotion Regulation and Mental Health at School-age and Adolescence
Thu, April 6, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Austin Convention Center, Meeting Room 1Session Type: Paper Symposium
Integrative Statement
Attachment and family relationships are crucial for the development of emotion regulation (ER). Alterations in ER can influence mental health, especially at school-age and beyond, when more autonomous emotional coping is required. This symposium analyzes how dyadic, family and attachment processes shape children’s ER and mental health at school-age/adolescence. The symposium includes three longitudinal studies and a meta-analysis, and represents an international co-operation from three countries.
The first paper examines a high-risk sample of drug-abusing mothers, analyzing how mothers’ prenatal adult attachment and early emotional availability (EA) predict children’s ER and mental health in middle childhood. Drug-abuse, non-autonomous attachment and low EA all predicted ER and mental health risk, with some emotion-specific effects for EA.
The second paper extends the focus to larger family systems, involving mother-child, father-child and marital relationships. Different family system types during infancy are examined as predictors of children’s school-age self-regulation. They had specific effects on children’s ER and executive functioning, both contributing to negative emotionality.
The third paper analyzes how mothers’ caregiving representations predict pre/adolescents’ attachment, ER and mental health. Mothers' attachment scripts were not predictive, while mothers’ and adolescents’ representations about the father were especially important. ER mediated the effects of the representations on adolescents' mental health.
The fourth paper is a meta-analysis examining how children’s attachment associates with their ER. It covers general efficacy of ER, specific regulatory strategies, as well as positive and negative emotionality. The meta-analysis provides a state-of-the-art summary of the current knowledge, and presents evidence about attachment-specific ER strategies.
Sub Unit
Chairs
Jallu Lindblom, School of Social Sciences and Humanities/Psychology, University of Tampere, Finland
Marjo Flykt, University of Tampere, Finland
Individual Presentations
Mother’s Prenatal Drug-abuse, Attachment and Early Interaction Predicting Child School-age Emotion Regulation and Mental Health - Presenting Author: Marjo Flykt, University of Tampere, Finland; Kaisa Saurio, School of Social Sciences and Humanities/ Psychology, University of Tampere, Finland; Jallu Lindblom, School of Social Sciences and Humanities/Psychology, University of Tampere, Finland; Sanna Isosävi, School of Social Sciences and Humanities/ Psychology, University of Tampere, Finland; Ritva Belt, City of Tampere, Finland; Raija-Leena Punamäki, School of Social Sciences and Humanities/Psychology, University of Tampere, Finland
Impact of Early Marital and Parenting Quality on Child’s Emotion Regulation and Executive Function – a Family Typology Approach - Presenting Author: Jallu Lindblom, School of Social Sciences and Humanities/Psychology, University of Tampere, Finland; Marjo Flykt, University of Tampere, Finland; Mervi Vänskä, School of Social Sciences and Humanities/Psychology, University of Tampere, Finland; Aila Tiitinen, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Finland; Maija Tulppala, University of Helsinki, Finland; Raija-Leena Punamäki, School of Social Sciences and Humanities/Psychology, University of Tampere, Finland
Teenagers’ Attachment and Parent Caregiving Representations: Links to Emotion Regulation and Internalizing/Externalizing Problems - Presenting Author: Elia Psouni, Department of Psychology, Lund University; Hedda Skyllbäck, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden
Parent-Child Attachment and Children’s Affective Experiences and Regulation of Emotion: Meta-Analytic Evidence - Presenting Author: Logan Brittany Kochendorfer, Kent State University; Jessica E Cooke, Dept. of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University; Kaela L Stuart-Parrigon, Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University, United States of America; Mahsa Movahed-Abtahi, Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University, United States of America; Amanda J Koehn, Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University, United States of America; Kathryn A Kerns, Kent State University, Department of Psychology