Intergenerational transmission of self-regulation: A multidisciplinary review and integrative conceptual framework.

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…

• NI
  National Institute of Mental Health

  Award: R01MH099437
• EK
  Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

  Award: R21HD072574