Parents’ emotion control beliefs: Links with responses to children’s negative emotions, child well-being, and parent–child relationship quality.

= 139), we found that parents' emotion control beliefs longitudinally (4 months later) predicted worse child well-being and lower parent-child relationship quality. These links were accounted for by parents providing less supportive and more disapproving responses to their children's emotions. Moreover, these links were relatively generalizable across parents' and children's gender and age (Studies 1-3) as well as parents' ethnicity (Study 3). Together, these findings suggest that parents' emotion control beliefs may influence how they respond to their children's emotions-often for the worse-subsequently shaping the child's well-being and the quality of the parent-child relationship. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).