Shared positive emotion during parent-toddler play and parent and child well-being in Mexican origin families.

Objective: The present study aimed to examine the association between mother-child and father-child shared positive emotion and parent self-reported parenting stress, as well as parent rated child socio-emotional adjustment.

Method: Data were collected from 107 Mexican origin families with a toddler age child (M = 17.49 months; 55 boys, 52 girls).

Impact of a Prescription Produce Program on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk Outcomes.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a fruit and vegetable prescription program on diabetes and cardiovascular risk outcomes.

Design: Single-arm pre-post study.

Setting: Primary care clinic in a community-based hospital.

Relationship context and emotion regulation across the life span.

A growing body of literature points to the important role that context plays in emotion regulation. One dimension of context that has significance for emotion regulation is the nature of the relationship between interactive partners. This review provides an organized account of existing empirical evidence assessing emotion regulation within close relationships across the life span.

Frequency and Intensity of Emotional Expressiveness and Preschool Children's Peer Competence.

Children's emotional expressiveness with peers was examined as a predictor of social competence. Data were collected from 122 preschool children (57 boys, 65 girls; 86 European American, 9 African American, 17 Hispanic, and 10 other ethnicity) over a period of two years. Observations of children's peer interactions in Year 1 were coded for frequency and intensity of happiness, anger, sadness, and fear.