How do Family Factors Impact Children’s Emotional Regulation?

Abstract

Emotion regulation had become an independent reach field in psychology in the last 40 years. Emotions includes anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise. Normally, individuals need to let off their emotions to maintain good health, and to decide whether it the right time to show or hide their emotions. Through reviewing previous studies, this paper found that emotion regulation is deeply connected with family factors. Specifically, family serve as a model and environment either to improve children's emotion regulation ability or results in a children's failure recognizance of emotion regulation. Parental relationship significantly affects children's emotional regulation as children learn from their environment. Nowadays, mental health has become an important topic, kids will be healthier in mental development if their parents can help the development of their emotion regulation. More longitudinal studies are needed in the future to further assess and investigate the causal link between family factors and children's ability to regulate emotion.