ALTHOUGH THERE IS A vast amount of literature on emotion regulation strategies, few studies have examined the direct relation between parents' and children's emotion regulation strategies.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 7 representative gaps

• Family-centered caregiving and well-being of parents of children with disabilities:linking process with outcome (1999) · doi

  has not been examined systematically as one of the many factors that may affect parents' emotional well-being Family-centered care involves ensuring that parents have ultimate control over decision making, treating parents respectfully and supportively, and providing parents with needed information (King, King, & Rosenbaum, 1996).

  Keywords: parents king examined systematically factors affect emotional well family centered care involves ensuring ultimate control
• Parental depressive symptoms and child psychopathology: Effects of parenting‐specific emotion regulation and emotion socialization (2024) · doi

  Implications: Findings imply that how parents regulate their emotions during parenting significantly affects their ability to engage in supportive ES practices, but replication in a longitudinal framework is warranted.

  Keywords: implications imply parents regulate emotions parenting affects ability engage supportive practices replication longitudinal framework warranted
• Parents' and Children's Emotion Regulation Strategies in Emotionally Situated Zones: A Cultural-Historical Perspective (2015) · doi

  ALTHOUGH THERE IS A vast amount of literature on emotion regulation strategies, few studies have examined the direct relation between parents' and children's emotion regulation strategies.

  Keywords: emotion regulation strategies there vast amount literature examined direct relation parents children
• Not to Worry? Parental Worry, Self-efficacy, and Parenting Behaviors in the Context of Adolescent Depression (2026) · doi

  High parental worry and low parental self-efficacy may be rather prominent among parents with adolescents with depression, but how this is related to parenting behaviors, such as warmth and criticism, is not well known.

  Keywords: parental high worry self efficacy rather prominent among parents adolescents depression related parenting behaviors warmth
• Expansion of Full-Day Childcare and Subjective Well-Being of Mothers: Interdependencies with Culture and Resources (2016) · doi

  It extends previous studies that showed contradictory results by demonstrating that the relationship with parental subjective well-being may vary by local work-care culture and family resources.

  Keywords: extends previous contradictory demonstrating relationship parental subjective well vary local care culture family resources
• Unique contributions of emotion regulation and executive functions in predicting the quality of parent–child interaction behaviors. (2016) · doi

  Parenting is a cognitive, emotional, and behavioral endeavor, yet limited research investigates parents' executive functions and emotion regulation as predictors of how parents interact with their children.

  Keywords: parents parenting cognitive emotional behavioral endeavor limited investigates executive functions emotion regulation predictors interact children
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Caregiving Stress in Parents of Children with Leukemia (2025) · doi

  However, the psychological mechanisms, such as the role of mindfulness, linking caregiver stress to parental coping strategies remain underexplored, and evidence-based interventions to support these parents are needed.

  Keywords: psychological mechanisms role mindfulness linking caregiver stress parental coping strategies remain underexplored evidence based interventions