Emotional awareness on parents' life satisfaction: effects for cognitive emotion regulation strategies and parental stress

The present database includes the results reported by a sample of 440 parents for the variables of emotional awareness, non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies (self-blame, catastrophizing, others-blame and rumination), life satisfaction and parental stress. The results report that self-blame and rumination moderate the relationship between emotional awareness and life satisfaction. Others-blame moderates the relationship between emotional awareness and parental stress. Parental stress show a mediation effect between emotional awareness and life satisfaction. A significant moderated mediation is found for others-blame.