Citation

Hirschler-Guttenberg Y, Feldman R, Ostfeld-Etzion S, Laor N, Golan O. J. Autism Dev. Disord. 2015; 45(9): 3004-3014.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, 529002, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10803-015-2464-z

PMID

25966678

Abstract

Emotion regulation (ER) difficulties are a major concern in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Maternal temperament and parenting style have significant effects on children's ER. However, these effects have not been studied in children with ASD. Forty preschoolers with ASD and their mothers and forty matched controls engaged in fear and anger ER paradigms, micro-coded for child self- and co-regulatory behaviors and parent's regulation-facilitation. Mothers' parenting style and temperament were self-reported. In the ASD group only, maternal authoritarian style predicted higher self-regulation and lower co-regulation of anger and maternal authoritative style predicted higher self-regulation of fear. Maternal temperament did not predict child's ER.

FINDINGS emphasize the importance of maternal flexible parenting style in facilitating ER among children with ASD.

Language: en