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J Child Fam Stud (2016) 25:3367–3380 DOI 10.1007/s10826-016-0490-x ORIGINAL PAPER Associations Between Fathers’ and Mothers’ Psychopathology Symptoms, Parental Emotion Socialization, and Preschoolers’ Social-Emotional Development 1 1 1 Lotte D. van der Pol • Marleen G. Groeneveld • Joyce J. Endendijk • 1 1 Sheila R. van Berkel • Elizabeth T. Hallers-Haalboom • 1 1 Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg • Judi Mesman Published online: 20 July 2016 The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at S Abstract In this study we tested whether the relation Introduction between fathers’ and mothers’ psychopathology symptoms and child social-emotional development was mediated by Children who grow up in families characterized by par- parents’ use of emotion talk about negative emotions in a ental psychological difficulties are at increased risk for sample of 241 two-parent families. Parents’ internalizing developing social-emotional behavior problems, even and externalizing problems were measured with the Adult when these difficulties are in the subclinical range Self Report and parental emotion talk was observed while (Cummings et al. 2005; Papp et al. 2004; Weitzman et al. they discussed a picture book with their children (child age: 2011, see for meta-analytic evidence Connell and Good- 3 years). Children’s parent-reported internalizing and man 2002). One of the key mechanisms through which externalizing problems and observed prosocial behaviors parental symptomatology affects child social-emotional