A Review of Research on the Effects of Intergenerational Parenting on Children's Emotional Control

Abstract

Intergenerational parenting, also known as "intergenerational education," has gradually become a common phenomenon in family education. With social changes, the family structure has produced relatively significant changes. As intergenerational parenting has become increasingly common, it has also received more and more attention from scholars. Researchers have discussed and studied the causes, advantages, disadvantages, and effects on children's psychological development. However, there is still a lack of research on the effects on children's emotional regulation. This study focuses on the effects of intergenerational parenting on children's emotion regulation. It summarizes the existing research from the overview of intergenerational parenting (including definition, types, and effects on grandchildren), the overview of children's emotion regulation (including definition, strategies, and influencing factors), and the effects of intergenerational parenting on children's emotion regulation. The emergence of intergenerational parenting has changed the original structure of the family. Therefore, under the situation that the problem of intergenerational parenting is becoming more and more popular, how to improve the quality of intergenerational education and how to help children grow up healthily under intergenerational education will become the focus of attention of the majority of child-rearing families and society in China. This study will also provide a series of recommendations on the impact of intergenerational parenting on children's emotions and family structure.