Parents’ identification and discussion of their own and their children’s emotions are important emotion socialization behaviors (ESBs) that may mitigate child conduct problems (CPs). However, if parents perceive their child to be relatively unemotional, which may be the case for children with conduct problems and high callous–unemotional traits (CP + CU), these parents may be limited in their capacity to use ESBs effectively. This study tested these questions by looking at ESBs in mothers (N = 145) of children aged 2–8 years with CP + CU (n = 24), CPs and low CU traits (CP–CU; n = 94) and a non-clinical community sample (n = 27). After watching an emotional movie excerpt, mothers were asked to (1) provide ratings of their child’s emotional experience and then (2) engage in a debriefing task with their child about the content. Children’s expressed emotion during the excerpt and transcriptions of the debriefing task were coded by masked raters. Unexpectedly, mothers’ perceptions of their children’s emotion did not vary by group. Emotional ratings provided by mothers of children in the CP + CU group most closely aligned with ratings from independent observers. ESBs did not differ by group in the debriefing task. Mothers of children with CP + CU traits were shown in this study to be reliable reporters of their children’s expressed emotion and showed similar rates of parental ESBs as mothers of children in the other groups. Results are discussed in reference to various models of parenting and CU traits that might account for these unexpected findings.

父母对自己和孩子情绪的识别和讨论是重要的情绪社会化行为（ESB），可以减轻儿童行为问题（CP）。然而，如果父母认为自己的孩子相对不情绪化，对于有品行问题和高度冷酷无情特征（CP + CU）的孩子来说可能就是这种情况，那么这些父母有效使用 ESB 的能力可能会受到限制。本研究通过观察 2-8 岁儿童的母亲 ( N = 145) 具有 CP + CU ( n  = 24)、CP 和低 CU 特征 (CP–CU; n  = 94) 和非-临床社区样本（n  = 27）。观看情感电影片段后，母亲被要求（1）对孩子的情感体验进行评分，然后（2）与孩子一起进行有关内容的汇报任务。儿童在汇报任务的摘录和转录过程中表达的情绪由蒙面评分者进行编码。出乎意料的是，母亲对孩子情绪的看法并没有因群体而异。CP + CU 组中孩子的母亲提供的情绪评分与独立观察者的评分最为一致。ESB 在汇报任务中并没有因组而异。这项研究表明，具有 CP + CU 特征的孩子的母亲是孩子情绪表达的可靠记录者，并且与其他组孩子的母亲表现出相似的父母 ESB 比率。参考各种养育模型和 CU 特征对结果进行了讨论，这些模型可能解释了这些意外的发现。