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The problem
Intervention: None - this is an observational study examining natural variation in parents' emotion control beliefs
Who it was tested with: Parents and children in the United States and Canada; Studies 1-3 with N=139 total.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"we found that parents' emotion control beliefs longitudinally (4 months later) predicted worse child well-being and lower parent-child relationship quality. These links were accounted for by parents providing less supportive and more disapproving responses to their children's emotions." The longitudinal design with 4-month follow-up and measurement of mechanisms (parental response patterns) provides stronger evidence than cross-sectional associations alone.
Observational design limits causal inference; unmeasured confounders may explain associations. Specific sample sizes and child age ranges not fully detailed in the abstract.
Across countries and designs
5 studies · 5 countries
