Empirical evidence relying primarily on questionnaire reports indicates parent coping socialization messages play an important role in children’s psychological functioning. The present study utilized a multi-informant, multi-method design to build on previous coping socialization research in childhood and adolescence. A novel coding system was developed to measure observed parental socialization of coping messages from observations of a discussion-based peer stress task. Questionnaires and direct observations were obtained from mothers with and without a history of depression (N = 116; 50% with a history of depression) and their children (9 to 15 years). Observed maternal coping socialization messages were not significantly correlated with mother or child reports of child internalizing symptoms in bivariate analyses. However, in multiple linear regression analyses, current maternal depressive symptoms and children’s level of peer stress emerged as significant moderators of the association between observed maternal coping socialization messages and children’s internalizing symptoms. The conceptual and methodological contributions of the current study are discussed, limitations and strengths are noted, and implications for future research are outlined.

主要依靠问卷报告的经验证据表明，父母应对社会化信息在儿童的心理功能中发挥着重要作用。本研究采用多信息、多方法设计，以建立在先前儿童和青春期应对社会化研究的基础上。开发了一种新的编码系统，以根据对基于讨论的同伴压力任务的观察来测量观察到的父母对应对信息的社会化。问卷调查和直接观察来自有和没有抑郁症病史的母亲（N = 116; 50% 有抑郁症病史）及其子女（9 至 15 岁）。在双变量分析中，观察到的母亲应对社会化信息与母亲或儿童报告的儿童内化症状没有显着相关性。然而，在多元线性回归分析中，当前母亲的抑郁症状和儿童的同伴压力水平成为观察到的母亲应对社会化信息与儿童内化症状之间关联的重要调节因素。讨论了当前研究的概念和方法论贡献，指出了局限性和优势，并概述了对未来研究的影响。