Boys and girls learn early from their parents about what is appropriate and what is not in terms of emotional expression. We argue that these parental cues can lead to the formation of stigma around emotionality; yet there is a dearth of research on how stigma around emotionality may be formed through societal gender roles and stereotypes related to the expression of emotionality. The current study provides a preliminary investigation of this novel construct – emotionality stigma – as a mediator in the relationship between recalled parental emotion dysregulation (ED) and adult children’s internalizing symptoms. College and community individuals (N = 866) reported their emotionality stigma endorsement, their internalizing symptoms, and their parents' ED. Participants in our sample ranged in age from 18 to 68 years old (M = 28.2, SD = 9.8); 57.9% identified as female, and 61.4% identified as White. Structural equation modeling revealed parent and child gender differences in a mediational model where emotionality stigma significantly mediated the relation between recalled parental ED and adult children’s internalizing symptoms. Specifically, recalled paternal ED emerged as a stronger predictor of adult children’s internalizing symptoms as compared to recalled maternal ED. Furthermore, results showed a stronger indirect effect between maternal and paternal ED and adult children’s internalizing symptoms through emotionality stigma for male children as compared to female children. This research, while preliminary, is the first to demonstrate how parent and child gender interact to influence the relationship between recalled parental ED, emotionality stigma, and internalizing symptoms.

男孩和女孩很早就从他们的父母那里学习在情感表达方面什么是合适的，什么是不合适的。我们认为，这些父母的暗示会导致围绕情绪的污名化；然而，关于如何通过与情绪表达相关的社会性别角色和刻板印象来形成围绕情绪的污名的研究很少。目前的研究对这种新的结构——情绪污名——进行了初步调查，它作为回忆父母情绪失调 (ED) 与成年儿童内化症状之间关系的中介。大学和社区个人（N = 866) 报告了他们的情绪耻辱认可、他们的内化症状和他们父母的 ED。我们样本中的参与者年龄从 18 岁到 68 岁不等（M  = 28.2，SD  = 9.8）；57.9% 被认定为女性，61.4% 被认定为白人。结构方程模型揭示了中介模型中父母和孩子的性别差异，其中情绪污名显着介导了回忆的父母 ED 与成年子女内化症状之间的关系。具体而言，与回忆起的母亲相比，回忆起父亲的ED 成为成年儿童内化症状的更强预测因子。教育署。此外，结果表明，与女性儿童相比，男性儿童的情绪耻辱感在母亲和父亲 ED 与成年儿童的内化症状之间具有更强的间接影响。这项研究虽然是初步的，但首次证明了父母和孩子的性别如何相互作用以影响回忆的父母 ED、情绪污名和内化症状之间的关系。