A Cross-Sectional Examination of the Internalization of Emotion Co-regulatory Support in Children with ASD.
Jason K Baker, Rachel M Fenning, Jacquelyn Moffitt
PMID 31201578WHAT IT FOUND
Older children with ASD showed more similar emotion dysregulation with and without a parent.
Better parent support also related more strongly to less child dysregulation alone at older ages, but that link was only a trend.
Key findings
01Older children showed more similar dysregulation in the parent-child task and the independent task.
02The similarity in dysregulation across the parent-supported and independent tasks became apparent at around 7.63 years.
03Better parental scaffolding was related to less independent dysregulation more strongly at older ages, but the relation at older ages was only a trend.
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What it does not show
The study used existing one-time data, so it cannot show how any one child changed over time. Some independent regulation data were missing and were estimated rather than observed. The age-related link between parental scaffolding and independent dysregulation reached only a trend. The sample included only children with ASD, so it does not show whether the pattern differs in children without ASD.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that better parental scaffolding causes better independent emotion regulation. The study was cross-sectional, and the scaffolding effect was only a trend.