Coercive parenting mediates the relationship between military fathers’ emotion regulation and children’s adjustment
Zhang, J., Palmer, A., Zhang, N., & Gewirtz, A. H. (2020). Coercive parenting mediates the relationship between military fathers’ emotion regulation and children’s adjustment. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 48, 633–645. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00625-8
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Research has demonstrated that parents’ emotional experiences can influence their
parenting strategies, which may, in turn, affect children’s well-being. Military parents may have difficulty
regulating their emotions if they have experienced deployment-related military stressors (e.g., posttraumatic
stress disorder). This study examined the longitudinal associations between deployed fathers’ emotion
regulation and their children’s well-being (i.e., internalizing and externalizing behaviors reported by
parents and depressive symptoms reported by children) in a sample of 181 National Guard/Reserve
families. Additionally, coercive parenting behaviors (e.g., irritability, bossiness, persistent negativity) were
examined as a mediator of the association between emotion regulation and child well-being. The findings
suggest that fathers who experience challenges regulating their own emotions tend to engage in more
coercive parenting, which in turn has long-term implications for children’s well-being.
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