Child-Led Emotion Regulation Behaviours during Toddler Vaccinations: Building Understanding through a Dyadic Lens

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dc.contributor.advisorRiddell, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorGennis, Hannah Gabrielle
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-14T16:35:18Z
dc.date.available2022-12-14T16:35:18Z
dc.date.copyright2022-08-08
dc.date.issued2022-12-14
dc.date.updated2022-12-14T16:35:17Z
dc.degree.disciplinePsychology (Functional Area: Clinical-Developmental)
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractVaccination of infants and young children is a routine procedure requiring regulation of high distress. While infants rely heavily on their caregivers for regulating distress, in toddlerhood, children begin to build a repertoire of their own emotion regulation (ER) skills to modulate their distress. The current dissertation consists of three studies to better understand toddler-led ER during vaccination. Study 1 is a published systematic review and meta-analysis (Gennis et al., 2022) aimed at understanding the concurrent relationships between child-led ER behaviours and distress in the first three years of life. Findings indicated that disengagement of attention and physical self-soothing strategies were typically regulatory (i.e., had negative relationships with distress), whereas parent-focused behaviours (e.g., orienting to the caregiver) were associated with more distress, suggesting a signalling function to gain support. With the exception of physical self-soothing, which showed a clear negative association in the first year, relationships between regulatory behaviours and distress were strongest in the second year. Study 2 (Gennis, Flora, Norton et al., submitted) used auto-regressive cross-lagged models to assess the concurrent and predictive relationships between three child-led ER behaviour clusters (disengagement of attention, physical self-soothing, and parent-focused behaviours) and pain-related distress responses during 12- and 18-month vaccinations. Findings indicated that disengagement of attention and physical self-soothing generally had negative relationships with pain-related distress, suggesting a possible regulatory role, whereas parent-focused behaviours were related to higher pain-related distress, suggesting a signalling role for parent support. With the exception of physical self-soothing, relationships were generally stronger at 18 months. Study 3 (Gennis, Flora, McMurtry, et al., submitted) used growth curve modelling to understand the associations between child-led ER behaviours and the change in pain scores across the appointment (regulation) at 12- and 18- months, after accounting for parent regulatory behaviours and pre-needle distress. Pre-needle distress consistently predicted regulation and parent regulatory behaviours played an increasing role in older toddlers. Findings suggest that after accounting for pre-needle distress and parent regulatory behaviours, child-led parent-focused behaviours predicted less regulation post-needle. Children seek their parent when they are struggling to regulate, suggesting continued need to understand vaccination as a dyadic context.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/40716
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectDevelopmental psychology
dc.subjectClinical psychology
dc.subjectPsychology
dc.subject.keywordsToddler
dc.subject.keywordsPain
dc.subject.keywordsVaccination
dc.subject.keywordsSelf-regulation
dc.subject.keywordsParenting
dc.titleChild-Led Emotion Regulation Behaviours during Toddler Vaccinations: Building Understanding through a Dyadic Lens
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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