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Children’s emotion regulation capabilities are strategies that are used to manage (inhibit, enhance, or maintain) emotional experiences (Thompson 1994) and develop within the context of social interactions. Parents facilitate the advancement of their children’s emotion regulation through emotion coregulation processes. Conceptually, emotion coregulation involves transactional exchanges between parent-child dyads; however, there is a lack of consensus regarding the optimal definition of emotion coregulation. Numerous related terms and definitions have been used to describe dyadic emotion processes between parents and their children. For example, synchrony refers to parents and children matching their behaviors and affect states to regulate emotional arousal (Feldman 2003); parent-driven coregulation involves behaviors that parents engage in to motivate or scaffold children’s emotion regulation strategies (Gulsrud et al. 2010; Ting and Weiss 2017), and shared affect describes...
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Valentovich, V., Goldberg, W.A., Garfin, D.R., Guo, Y. (2020). Emotion Coregulation Processes Between Parents and Their Children with ASD. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_102422-1
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