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(en) Human beings have been parents since the dawn of humanity. Parenting determines both the survival of the human species and the way successive generations develop. Successful parenting requires a wide range of resources and skills, and this chapter considers mounting evidence that emotion regulation (ER) plays a critical role in parenting. ER in parenting is defined as the automatic or strategic process by which parents regulate their own or their child's emotion in order to maintain their well-being as a parent and/or to foster their child's development. After defining ER in parenting and presenting its major goals, it briefly reviews its antecedents at the personal and cultural levels. In so doing, it also seeks to understand why pressure to exercise ER has increased in parenting in recent decades. The chapter reviews the outcomes of parents' ER and discover an important point: In parenting, the perfect is the enemy of the good. Finally, it presents a number of important directions for future research.
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Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2024). Emotion regulation in parenting. In J.J. Gross, B. Ford (ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (pp. 174-180). The Guilford Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/239322