The Association between Parent-Child Relationship and Emotional Regulation

Abstract

Emotional regulation is the way people control their emotions, adjust emotions, and maintain emotional stability. The parenting style are influencing children’s mental health development a lot, and a positive parent-child relationship will help children’s emotional regulation ability develop. This research is focused on the attachment relationship of children to their parents in their childhood, and what kind of influence people's growth environment will have on their personality and social adaptability in adulthood. The ability to control depression before they grow up, and what behaviors of parents will lead negative impact on children's psychological development, and how mothers and fathers have different influences on children's growth, etc. to conduct research. In the end, the result shows a warm family environment and emotionally stable parents will raise strong emotional regulation ability children. The studies also have some limitations, such as there was no investigation into the experiences of the participants as adults. Future studies should do more surveys about experiences in the adulthood of the participant.