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Child temperament as a moderator of maternal emotion coaching: Implications for pathways leading to behavior problems

Award Number: R01HD097131
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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Child temperament as a moderator of maternal emotion coaching: Implications for pathways leading to behavior problems - Emotion coaching (EC) is a parental emotion socialization style combining awareness and acceptance of children’s emotional experience with active validation of and teaching about children’s emotions. EC is related to lower externalizing and internalizing problems. Theory and research support the mediating role of emotion regulation (ER) in links of EC with children’s psychosocial adjustment. Thus, a developmental cascade model is proposed, with EC affecting children’s later ER, which then affects children’s internalizing and externalizing behavior problems (BP). One study to date has longitudinally investigated developmental shifts in EC, showing decreasing awareness and acceptance of children’s negative emotions and increasing endorsement of coaching negative emotions from 5 to 9 years of age.8 The proposed study will add to the literature by examining emotion coaching from 3 to 9 years of age, spanning the early childhood years when children make strides in understanding publically observable aspects of emotion as well as the middle childhood transition when children increase in understanding internal, mental aspects of emotions. Furthermore, the study will use behavioral observations of EC of both positive and negative emotions during object-focused mother-child interaction tasks, which provide naturally-occurring opportunities to capture mothers’ discouragement of children’s emotions, an important element of the meta-emotion construct. Because there is evidence for differential effects of EC according to child temperament, the proposed study will also examine whether children’s temperament moderates links of EC with ER. In particular, children higher in negative affectivity (NA) may have greater need of parental EC because of their frequent and intense experience of negative emotions, and their need may also make them more receptive to parents’ efforts. Thus, the developmental cascade model tested in the proposed study will be a moderated mediation model. Also, the model includes the potential bidirectional influence of children’s BP on parents’ later EC. Specific aims are to examine (a) individual rank-order stability and mean-level change in maternal EC from early to middle childhood, and cross- task consistency in maternal EC in middle childhood, and (b) longitudinal associations of EC with BP through the mediator of ER, with NA included as a moderator of this developmental cascade and bidirectional relations of BP with later EC included. Aims will be accomplished through secondary analysis of data from a longitudinal study of psychobiology, temperament, and cognitive development that includes time points when children were 3, 4, 6 and 9 years of age. Videotaped mother-child interaction tasks will be re-purposed to observe EC. The study already includes standard age-appropriate measures of NA (maternal report and observed), ER (observed), and BP (maternal report) at each time point. The proposed research advances developmental science by rigorously examining stability, change, and cross-task consistency in EC, exploring temperament as a moderator, and testing a developmental cascade model long theorized in the literature.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = -$8 )
2025	2022	UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM	4300 MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD	HOUSTON	TX	77204	HARRIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	1/16/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$8
														Subtotal = -$8

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $290,959 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM	4800 W CALHOUN ST STE 316	HOUSTON	TX	77004	HARRIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	2/28/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$261,863
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM	4800 W CALHOUN ST STE 316	HOUSTON	TX	77004	HARRIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	5	4/25/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$29,096
														Subtotal = $290,959

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $290,959 )
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM	4800 W CALHOUN ST STE 316	HOUSTON	TX	77004	HARRIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	002	4	4/1/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM	4800 W CALHOUN ST STE 316	HOUSTON	TX	77004	HARRIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	4	2/12/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$290,959
2021	2020	VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY	300 TURNER ST NW STE 4200	BLACKSBURG	VA	24061	MONTGOMERY	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	2	1/25/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $290,959

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $309,565 )
2020	2020	VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY	300 TURNER ST NW STE 4200	BLACKSBURG	VA	24061	MONTGOMERY	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	2	8/21/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$312,159
2020	2020	UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM	4800 W CALHOUN ST STE 316	HOUSTON	TX	77004	HARRIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	002	3	8/21/2020	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$303,604
2020	2020	VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY	300 TURNER ST NW STE 4200	BLACKSBURG	VA	24061	MONTGOMERY	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	2	2/20/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$318,120
														Subtotal = $309,565

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $319,860 )
2019	2019	VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY	300 TURNER ST NW STE 4200	BLACKSBURG	VA	24061	MONTGOMERY	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	2/27/2019	NEW	$319,860
														Subtotal = $319,860

Grand Total All Awards = $1,211,335

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Child temperament as a moderator of maternal emotion coaching: Implications for pathways leading to behavior problems

Award Number: R01HD097131

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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