ReviewPerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2025
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents' Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children.
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- 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
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- Emotion and Feeling in Parent-Child Dyads: Neurocognitive and Psychophysiological Pathways of Development.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Why is constructive interparental conflict beneficial for children's mental health? The role of effortful control and positive affect.Developmental psychology · 2025Article
- Lessons learned from witnessing constructive interparental conflict and the beneficial implications for children.Developmental psychology · 2025Article
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- Shaping infants' social brains through vicarious social learning: the importance of positive mother-father interactions.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Interparental interactions have an important influence on child well-being and development. Yet prior theory and research have primarily focused on interparental conflict as contributing to child maladjustment, which leaves out the critical question of how interparental positive interactions-such as expressed gratitude, capitalization, and shared laughter-may benefit child growth and development. In this article, we integrate theory and research in family, relationship, and affective science to propose a new framework for understanding how the heretofore underexamined positive interparental interactions influence children: interparental positivity spillover theory (IPST). IPST proposes that, distinct from the influence of conflict, interparental positive interactions spill over into children's experiences in the form of their (a) experience of positive emotions, (b) beneficially altered perceptions of their parents, and (c) emulation of their parents' positive interpersonal behaviors. This spillover is theorized to promote beneficial cognitive, behavioral, social, and physiological outcomes in children in the short term (i.e., immediately after a specific episode of interparental positivity, or on a given day) as well as cumulatively across time. As a framework, IPST generates a host of novel and testable predictions to guide future research, all of which have important implications for the mental health, well-being, and positive development of children and families.
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