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SUBMITTER: Lorber MF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4523636 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) 20120801 4
The roles of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression as intentional methods mothers use to regulate their own emotion were investigated in relation to mothers' experience and expression of negative emotion and their overreactive and lax discipline practices. Eighty-two mothers of toddlers completed questionnaires that measured these constructs. Emotion regulation strategies were more consistently associated with overreactive than with lax discipline. More suppression in discipline encou ...[more]