Family Socialization Influences on Developing Emotion Regulation skills among children

Abstract

Emotional organization is not something that is born with us. Young children do not have
emotional organizational skills, so it is the family who has a responsibility to help their
children learn the skills of emotional organization. Developmental psychologists have
always considered the expression emotional parentage an integral part of a child's emotional
and social competence. Parental emotional expression in the context of the family is of
particular importance as it is the primary context in which children first learn the rules of
emotional presentation and acquire others' understanding of emotional expression.
Family is one of the important life contexts that affect in the healthy development of
children. The stimuli offered by the family - especially within the parent-child relationship -
play a crucial role in child development. Emotional regulation develops in the context of
the family, where social interactions and multifaceted family relationships affect emotional
behavior and children's abilities to manage their feelings. In this article, we will discuss the
role of the family in developing the skills of Emotional regulation through: Emotional
expression, supportive and warm responses to parents, emotional regulation of children,
family emotional climate, direct interventions for emotional management, interpersonal
conflicts, parent-child dialogue. Although we focused in our article only on family influences,
this does not negate the presence of other factors that contribute to emotional organization,
whether within the family such as brotherly relations or the quality of the parenting
relationship or outside the family in the larger social context that includes friends, school and
others