Emotion socialization profiles in military parents: Associations with post-traumatic stress disorder
- Giff, S. T., Renshaw, K. D., Denham, S. A., Martin, L. N., & Gewirtz, A. H. (2024). Emotion socialization profiles in military parents: Associations with post-traumatic stress disorder. Family Process, 63(3), 1484-1501. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12931
- Emotion socialization is the process by which children learn how to understand, regulate, and express their emotions, often through interactions with their parents. This study identified unique profiles of parents based on their emotion socialization behaviors among National Guard/Reserve fathers and civilian mothers (N = 224 families). In other words, parents with similar approaches to emotion socialization were grouped together. Observations of parent-child interactions were used to quantify each parent’s emotion socialization behaviors, specifically their responses to their child’s emotions, emotion coaching, and modeling; these observations also recorded the children’s emotional expressiveness. 5 distinct profiles emerged.
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