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- Title
Conceptualization and Measurement of Parent Emotion Socialization among Mothers in Substance Abuse Treatment.
- Authors
Shadur, Julia M.; Hussong, Andrea M.
- Abstract
The current study examined emotion socialization behaviors within a clinical sample of substance-dependent mothers. Interviews were conducted with N = 74 mothers in substance abuse treatment (outpatient and residential with or without opiate agonist medication). Each mother had a biological child between the ages of 3-8 years. We examined the factor structure of a widely-used emotion socialization measure (Coping with Children's Negative Emotions Scale) and included a novel subscale to capture the level of consistency of maternal reactions to children's emotions as a unique and salient component of emotion socialization. We found that, overall, mothers reported engaging in "emotion-coaching" styles of socialization, involving more consistent and supportive than non-supportive reactions to children's negative emotions, consistent with general population studies. However, compared to community sample mothers, substance-dependent mothers reported significantly greater levels of both supportive and non-supportive reactions to children's negative emotions, perhaps reflecting over-involved emotion socialization behaviors. The context of maternal drug use negatively impacted how well mothers balanced these types of reactions, such that mothers engaged in significantly higher levels of non-supportive and inconsistent reactions during periods of problematic drug use compared to periods of sobriety. These findings underscore the need to consider contextual risk as a predictor of emotion socialization and suggest that emotion socialization behaviors vary both within and across such contexts. Implications of this work highlight the importance of examining consistency as a characteristic of emotion socialization in its own right, particularly within families impacted by parental drug use and related contexts of high risk.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PSYCHOLOGY of mothers; EMOTIONS -- Social aspects; SUBSTANCE abuse treatment; SOCIALIZATION research; PSYCHOLOGY of parents; MOTHER-child relationship; EMOTIONS in children; SOCIAL support; FACTOR analysis; DRUG addiction; EMOTIONS; INTERVIEWING; PARENTING; SOCIALIZATION
- Publication
Journal of Child & Family Studies, 2019, Vol 28, Issue 2, p325
- ISSN
1062-1024
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10826-018-1269-z