A Pilot Study of a Parent Emotion Socialization Intervention: Impact on Parent Behavior, Child Self-Regulation, and Adjustment.

Autor:	Bølstad E; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway., Havighurst SS; Mindful: Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia., Tamnes CK; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.; PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.; NORMENT, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.; Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway., Nygaard E; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway., Bjørk RF; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway., Stavrinou M; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.; Division of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Department of Diagnostic Physics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway., Espeseth T; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.; Department of Psychology, Bjørknes College, Oslo, Norway.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in psychology [Front Psychol] 2021 Oct 15; Vol. 12, pp. 730278. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Oct 15 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyg.2021.730278
Abstrakt:	Adequate emotion regulation in children is crucial for healthy development and is influenced by parent emotion socialization. The current pilot study aimed to test, for the first time in a Scandinavian population, whether an emotion-focused intervention, Tuning in to Kids (TIK), had positive effects on parent emotion-related socialization behaviors (ERSBs), and children's self-regulation, anxiety, and externalizing behavior problems. We conducted a controlled trial of the 6-week evidence-based TIK parenting program with 20 parents of preschool children aged 5-6 years and 19 wait-list controls. Assessments at baseline and 6 months after the intervention included parent-report questionnaires on parent ERSBs and child adjustment, as well as aspects of children's self-regulation assessed with two behavioral tasks, the Emotional Go/No-Go task (EGNG) and the AX-Continuous Performance Task (AX-CPT). Results showed a significant increase in reported parent emotion coaching behavior and an uncorrected significant decrease in parents' report of child externalizing problems in intervention participants compared to controls. The behavioral data showed an uncorrected significant improvement in child emotion discrimination in the control condition compared to the intervention condition, while measures of children's executive control improved from baseline to follow-up for both conditions but were not significantly different between conditions. These findings suggest that this emotion-focused parenting intervention contributed to improvement in parents' emotion coaching and their appraisal of child externalizing problems, while children's self-regulation showed mainly normative developmental improvements. Further research with a larger sample will be the next step to determine if these pilot findings are seen in an adequately powered study. Competing Interests: SH wishes to declare a conflict of interest in that she may benefit from positive reports of the Tuning in to Kids program. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2021 Bølstad, Havighurst, Tamnes, Nygaard, Bjørk, Stavrinou and Espeseth.)
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