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LINS, Taiane C. S.; ANJOS FILHO, Nilton C.  e  ALVARENGA, Patrícia. Effects of an Intervention Focused on Child Emotion Socialization. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2023, vol.25, n.3, ePTPHD15287.  Epub 10-Mar-2025. ISSN 1516-3687.  https://doi.org/10.5935/1980-6906/eptphd15287.en.

Parental reactions that are not supportive of children's negative emotions may favor the emergence or worsen behavior problems during childhood. This study examined the effects of the intervention program Vivendo Emoções [Experiencing Emotions] on maternal supportive reactions (emotion-focused, problem-focused, and encouraging reactions) and unsupportive reactions (punitive, distress, minimizing, and ignoring reactions) to children's emotions and children's internalizing and externalizing problems. Thirty-two mothers of children aged between three and eight participated and were assigned to an intervention (n = 16) or a comparison (n = 16) group. The intervention was implemented in eight sessions intended to promote the mothers' strategies to identify and regulate their children's negative emotions and enable the children to improve emotional competence. The mothers completed the Coping with Children's Negative Emotions Scale to report their reactions to children's emotional expressions and the Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 6-18 to report internalizing and externalizing problems on pretest and posttest. The results reveal that mothers in the intervention group reported fewer unsupportive reactions on posttest than mothers in the comparison group (U = 70.00; p = 0.01). This finding shows the potential of such interventions to decrease unsupportive maternal reactions. The need to increase the number of sessions and activities to train supportive reactions is discussed, as well as the relevance of interventions such as this one to expand parental knowledge about socio-emotional development in childhood.

Palavras-chave : socialization; maternal behaviors; psychological interventions; problem behavior; Emotions.

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