Managing emotion in a maltreating context: A pilot study examining child neglect
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Objective The primary goal of this pilot study was to examine emotion management skills (i.e., emotional understanding, emotion regulation) in children who had experienced neglect and a control group to determine the ways that neglect may interfere with children's emotional development. Method Participants included children 6--12 years of age and their mothers (neglect group, N=24; control, N=24). Participants completed questionnaires and an interview that assessed children's emotional understanding and emotion regulation. Results Findings indicated that neglected children, compared to their non-maltreated peers, demonstrated lower understanding of negative emotions (i.e., anger, sadness) and fewer adaptive emotion regulation skills. Further, neglected children expected less support and more conflict from mothers in response to displays of negative emotion and reported that they were more likely to attempt to inhibit the expression of negative emotion. Conclusions Findings suggest that neglect may interfere with the normal acquisition of emotional understanding and emotion regulation skills, highlighting the importance of addressing these skills in the context of clinical intervention with neglected children.
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Early neglect interferes with emotion understanding.
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- Authors
- Shipman, K., Edwards, A., Brown, A., Swisher, L., & Jennings, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
- University of Georgia (US)
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (US)
- Oklahoma State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Shipman, Kimberly
- Venue
- Child Abuse & Neglect
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-09
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1015-1029
- ISSN
- 0145-2134 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2052320046
- Cited by
- 222
- References
- 3
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- FWCI
- 2.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Child Abuse & Neglect (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R03MH060281, 1R03 MH60281-01A1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Keywords
- child neglect, emotion regulation, emotional understanding, emotional development, maltreated children, maternal support, maternal conflict, negative emotion expression, children's emotional development
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Child, Child Abuse, Child Development, Emotions, Female, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Mother-Child Relations, Pilot Projects
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