Emotion Socialization in the Context of Risk and Psychopathology:Maternal Emotion Coaching Predicts Better Treatment Outcomes for EmotionallyLabile Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder

摘要

We examined whether maternal emotion coaching at pre-treatment predicted children's treatment response following a 12-week program addressing children's Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) symptoms. Eighty-nine mother-child dyads participated. At pre-treatment, mothers and children engaged in an emotion talk task. Mothers also reported their beliefs about emotions at pre-treatment and their child's disruptive behavior symptoms, emotion regulation, and emotion labilityegativity at pre-, mid-, and post-treatment. Clinicians reported children's symptom severity at pre- and post-treatment. Children's emotion labilityegativity moderated effects of maternal emotion coaching on children's post-treatment ODD symptoms, with stronger benefits of emotion coaching for children high in emotion labilityegativity. Results suggest that emotion coaching may promote treatment response for children with ODD who are especially at risk due to their emotionality.