Emotion Regulation And Aggression Analysis

Emotion regulation has various effect on individual’s life and impairment in emotion regulation would lead to many negative consequences. Emotion regulation can be defined as extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and modifying emotional reactions (Thompson 1994). There are many emotion regulation strategies such as reappraisal or suppression. Parenting and family experiences have been documented as playing a fundamental role in children 's emotional development (Repetti, Taylor, & Seeman 2002). According to Baumrind, parenting styles could be classified into four types: Authoritarian, Authoritative, Permissive and disengaged. Authoritarian parenting is defined with high demand and low responsiveness. Consequence …show more content…
This study still has limitation, especially when looking in cross culture perspective since it did not draw cross-cultural comparison. Also, the sample was from urban area and has no sibling. Due to Chinese one child policy, all sample from this study was only child, and sibling conflict could modify and has effect on child aggression and punitive parenting as well (Garcia, Shaw, Winslow, & Yaggi, 2000). Since this aspect could not captured in this study, it is difficult to generalize to other people from other environment. In addition, measurement in this study has many limitations for both both reliability and validity since researchers did not employ multiple informant when collecting …show more content…
As Chao states a lot of value is placed on the child to do well for family (1996), he mentions for the differences on school performance that Asian American immigrants do well on school achievement although they receives harsh parenting which is different from European american. He suggests that parental respect would be included in the studies. However, his research on consequences of parenting style for Chinese Americans and European americans It seems to be obvious that parenting style is a major concern around the world and cultural difference could moderate to the consequences. Thus it is important to study the effect of different parenting style on children development across cultures. Past research has suggested some relationship between harsh parenting and emotion regulation (Chang, Schwartz, Dodge, & Mcbride-Chang 2003) while others show none (Louie, Oh & Lau 2013). Awarding this conflict among past research, it would be beneficial to study effect of harsh parenting on emotion regulation across different