ReviewPsychological bulletin2015
Intergenerational transmission of self-regulation: A multidisciplinary review and integrative conceptual framework.
Review in Psychological bulletin, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07083037 (Enhancing Preschool Children's Attention and Behaviour), which is not on this map. Cited by 230 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Enhancing Preschool Children's Attention and Behaviour: Parent-Focused Program
Who cites it
230 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Emotion regulation in children and adolescents: a systematic review and quality assessment of behavioral and physiological assessment methods and their theoretical foundations.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Self-Regulated Parenting: A Systematic Review of the Relations Between Effortful Control, the Big-Five, and Parenting Practices.Psychological reports · 2026Pooled it
- Early Predictors of the Childhood Dysregulation Profile: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Pooled it
- Parental Expressed Emotion and Behavioural Outcomes in Autistic Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic review: the impact of maternal pre-and postnatal cannabis use on the behavioral and emotional regulation in early childhood.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- The effect of parenting behaviours on adolescents' rumination: a systematic review of longitudinal studies.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Emotion Regulation, Parenting, and Psychopathology: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Intergenerational Interventions for People Living with HIV and Their Families: A Systematic Review.AIDS and behavior · 2019Pooled it
- The Relationship between Family Violence and Self-Control in Adolescence: A Multi-Level Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- The Relations Between Maternal Prenatal Anxiety or Stress and Child's Early Negative Reactivity or Self-Regulation: A Systematic Review.Child psychiatry and human development · 2017Pooled it
- Effects of parent-child interaction therapy dosage on child and parent outcomes: differentiating child-directed interaction and parent-directed interaction session impacts in child welfare-involved families.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Trial
- Self-regulation as a resource for coping with developmental challenges during middle childhood and adolescence: the prospective longitudinal PIERBMC psychology · 2023Trial
- Impacts of the Attachment and Child Health (ATTACHInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- A Family Focused Intervention Influences Hippocampal-Prefrontal Connectivity Through Gains in Self-Regulation.Child development · 2019Trial
- Toward a Three-Tier Model of Parental Self-regulation: A Scoping Review of Existing Definitions and Operationalisations.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Review
- Testing a Developmental Cascade Model from Prenatal Maternal Emotion Dysregulation to Toddler Behavior Dysregulation Through Postnatal Parenting Stress and Infant Physiology.Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Cyclothymic-hypersensitive temperament in early adolescence: Longitudinal measurement invariance and associations with psychopathology over time.JCPP advances · 2026Article
- A Systematic Meta-Review of Mindfulness-Based and Mindfulness-Integrated Programs with Parents and Families: Evidence from Over 25 Years of Research.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2026Article
- Development, Implementation, and Refinement of a Mental Health Consultation-Liaison Model in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Learning Health System Approach.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Cross-sectional bidirectional associations between executive function and emotion regulation in adolescents: the moderating role of digital engagement intensity.BMC psychology · 2026Article
170 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
This review examines mechanisms contributing to the intergenerational transmission of self-regulation. To provide an integrated account of how self-regulation is transmitted across generations, we draw from over 75 years of accumulated evidence, spanning case studies to experimental approaches, in literatures covering developmental, social, and clinical psychology, and criminology, physiology, genetics, and human and animal neuroscience (among others). First, we present a taxonomy of what self-regulation is and then examine how it develops--overviews that guide the main foci of the review. Next, studies supporting an association between parent and child self-regulation are reviewed. Subsequently, literature that considers potential social mechanisms of transmission, specifically parenting behavior, interparental (i.e., marital) relationship behaviors, and broader rearing influences (e.g., household chaos) is considered. Finally, evidence that prenatal programming may be the starting point of the intergenerational transmission of self-regulation is covered, along with key findings from the behavioral and molecular genetics literatures. To integrate these literatures, we introduce the self-regulation intergenerational transmission model, a framework that brings together prenatal, social/contextual, and neurobiological mechanisms (spanning endocrine, neural, and genetic levels, including gene-environment interplay and epigenetic processes) to explain the intergenerational transmission of self-regulation. This model also incorporates potential transactional processes between generations (e.g., children's self-regulation and parent-child interaction dynamics that may affect parents' self-regulation) that further influence intergenerational processes. In pointing the way forward, we note key future directions and ways to address limitations in existing work throughout the review and in closing. We also conclude by noting several implications for intervention work.
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