Date Thesis Awarded
5-2024
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Science (BS)
Department
Psychology
Advisor
Danielle Dallaire
Committee Members
Sarah Bisconer
Monica Seger
Abstract
Parental incarceration is associated with strains on family financial resources and decreases in the existing caregiver's emotional well-being. Parental incarceration is also correlated with children's deteriorating emotional regulation. However, the impact of the existing caregiver’s income and emotional coping strategies on the child’s emotional regulation has not yet received systematic study. This paper examines caregivers’ income and self-reported emotion coping strategies in relation to children’s emotion regulation in a sample of 104 caregiver-child dyads. All caregivers were female and children (43.4% male) were in grades kindergarten through five. Analyses explored the moderating impact of family income and caregiver coping strategies on and their children’s emotion regulation and found significant results for both.
Keywords: Parental incarceration, emotion regulation, coping mechanisms, demographic predictors, income
Recommended Citation
Gruber, Samuel, "Emotion Regulation Among Children with Incarcerated Parents: Relations to Caregiver Income and Coping Strategies" (2024). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 2203.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/2203
