Multifaceted emotion regulation, stress and affect in mothers of young children.
We tested a novel multi-component emotion self-regulation construct that captured physiological (vagal tone), cognitive (reappraisal) and temperament (effortful control) aspects of emotion regulation (ER) as a moderator of the link between more stressors and greater negative/less positive affectivity (NA and PA). A socio-economically diverse sample of 151 women with young children completed questionnaires and a laboratory visit (including cognitive and parent-child interaction tasks and vagal tone measurement). Women with more stressors had more NA and less PA. Furthermore, for NA only, having more stressors was substantially associated with NA but only among women with the lowest ER. This pattern was evident for the composite as well as individual indicators of ER. Results were not attributable to individual differences in executive function. Findings are discussed in light of the diathesis-stress model of stress and coping.
['Deater-Deckard|Kirby|K|', 'Li|Mengjiao|M|', 'Bell|Martha Ann|MA|']
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological D000328:Adult D000339:Affect D002648:Child D002675:Child, Preschool D056344:Executive Function D005260:Female D006339:Heart Rate D006801:Humans D009035:Mothers D065809:Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia D013315:Stress, Psychological D013694:Temperament
Emotion regulation Stress Affect Executive function