Child Psychiatry and Human Development
Volume 50, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 846-855
Anger and Sadness Regulation in Refugee Children: The Roles of Pre- and Post-migratory Factors (Article)
Elsayed D. ,
Song J.-H. ,
Myatt E.* ,
Colasante T. ,
Malti T.
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Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Road N, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada
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Department of Child Development, California State University Dominguez Hills, 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson, CA 90747, United States
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Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Road N, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada
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Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Road N, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada
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Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Road N, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada
Abstract
Pre- and post-migratory factors have been implicated in refugee children’s mental health. However, findings regarding their unique and joint roles are inconsistent or nonexistent. We examined the main and interactive relations of pre-migratory life stressors and post-migratory daily hassles and routines to emotion regulation—a key marker of mental health—in 5- to 13-year-old Syrian refugee children (N = 103) resettling in Canada. Mothers and children completed questionnaires assessing pre-migratory life stressors and post-migratory daily hassles. Mothers also reported their children’s adherence to family routines and emotion regulation abilities (i.e., anger and sadness regulation) via questionnaire. Overall, children who more frequently engaged in family routines showed better anger regulation. Pre- and post-migratory factors also interacted, such that greater post-migratory daily hassles were associated with worse sadness regulation for children with lower levels of pre-migratory life stressors, but were unassociated with the sadness regulation of children who experienced higher levels of pre-migratory life stressors. Results suggest that pre- and post-migratory factors play unique and joint roles in refugee children’s emotion regulation during resettlement. © 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85064461455&doi=10.1007%2fs10578-019-00887-4&partnerID=40&md5=f8eb812ea9faa4952dcf5aa89c5cc210
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-019-00887-4
ISSN: 0009398X
Original Language: English