Parenting Styles And Emotional Regulation

Parenting Styles and Its Effects on Emotional Regulation Emotional regulation can be defined as an ability to respond to a variety of experiences with intact emotions. Children develop strategies that involve their emotions that have been linked to different parenting styles. For example, an authoritative parenting style is one in that the parents are supportive and responsive, whereas an authoritarian parenting style is one in that the parents are more unresponsive but highly demanding (Sartaj & Aslam, 2010). According to researchers, parenting styles and a child’s emotional regulation are connected (Cassidy, 1994). Parents are typically the ones to help children learn the variety of emotional responses to certain experiences. Parents teach

Children of authoritarian parents were more likely to feel sad, not have a close relationship with a parent, have lower self-esteem, and are not as happy compared to children with authoritative parents (Chan & Koo, 2010). Children who are constantly being controlled through an authoritarian parenting style are more likely to experience conflict in the household, which in turn effects a child’s emotional regulation. Parents who use an authoritarian parenting style that are consistently controlling what their children are doing can influence that child to express negative emotions as well (Chang, Schwartz, Dodge, & McBride-Chang, 2003). A child’s emotional regulation can be affected by his or her parent’s harsh punishment. Parent to child interactions and the way they are handled are important for a child emotional regulation. If a child is constantly getting yelled at and is experiencing aggression then they are more likely to not be able to control their emotions (Chang et al., 2003).

There are four distinct types of parenting styles all of which vary by culture. In the present experiment, undergraduate students a Kennesaw State University were interviewed in regard to their experience with their parent’s way of raising them and how this has affected their emotional regulation. After reviewing the previous research, I hypothesized that those who are raised with an authoritative parenting style are more likely to have better emotional