- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Infant Health and Development
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Research in Social Sciences
University of Oslo
2020-2025
Vestre Viken Hospital Trust
2024
Adequate emotion regulation in children is crucial for healthy development and influenced by parent socialization. The current pilot study aimed to test, the first time a Scandinavian population, whether an emotion-focused intervention, Tuning Kids (TIK), had positive effects on emotion-related socialization behaviors (ERSBs), children's self-regulation, anxiety, externalizing behavior problems. We conducted controlled trial of 6-week evidence-based TIK parenting program with 20 parents...
More than two decades of research have shown that parental emotion‐related socialization behaviors (ERSBs) significantly predict child emotion understanding and externalizing behavior problems. This study aimed to replicate these findings in a sample 40 Norwegian preschool children test whether the effect ERSBs on problems was mediated through understanding. Parental report obtained using Coping with Children’s Negative Emotions Scale (CCNES) questionnaire. Child assessed directly Test...
This study examined the predictive link between enhanced parental emotion-related socialization behaviors (ERSBs) and children's emotional understanding. Parental ERSBs were using Tuning in to Kids (TIK; Havighurst & Harley, 2007) parenting intervention, understanding was directly assessed Test of Emotion Comprehension (TEC; Pons Harris, 2000). 40 children their final year kindergarten one parents participated study. TIK led positive changes expressive encouragement. All showed statistically...
Introduction Developmental research suggests that children learn to regulate their emotions and behavior through a process of emotion socialization. The main body literature is based on samples from the United States, very little known about socialization in Nordic settings. Objectives current study aimed explore associations between mothers' fathers' reactions children's negative externalizing problems cultural context, gender differences these associations. Methods Parent‐report data...