The presence of a parental mental disorder can lead to adverse outcomes for children. Difficulties in emotion regulation are observed across a range of mental health problems and may play a crucial role in this context. Following PRISMA guidelines, we systematically searched Medline, PsycINFO, Embase, and Web of Science for studies examining the association between emotion regulation in parents with psychopathology at a clinical or subclinical level and their parenting. The protocol was registered with the PROSPERO international prospective register of systematic reviews (CRD42021224954; January 2021). A total of 23 studies were included in the qualitative synthesis. Emotion regulation was predominantly assessed using self-report on the general ability (e.g., Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale). The assessment of parenting encompassed a broad range of aspects and operationalizations. Across psychopathology in parents, several aspects of difficulties in emotion regulation were associated with unfavorable emotion socialization, more negative parenting, and partially with less positive parenting. Slightly different effects were observed for posttraumatic stress disorder and anxiety disorders. For parents with depressive disorders, specific emotion regulation strategies (suppression, reappraisal) seem to buffer against negative parenting. Since the majority of studies refer only to mothers, generalization to fathers is limited. Furthermore, conclusions are limited due to study heterogeneity and lack of prospective studies. Nevertheless, findings suggest that interventions should target the improvement of emotion regulation in parents with psychopathology.

父母精神障碍的存在可能会给孩子带来不良后果。在一系列心理健康问题中都观察到情绪调节困难，并且可能在这方面发挥着至关重要的作用。遵循 PRISMA 指南，我们系统地检索了 Medline、PsycINFO、Embase 和 Web of Science，以查找临床或亚临床水平上患有精神病理学的父母的情绪调节与其养育方式之间关联的研究。该方案已在 PROSPERO 国际前瞻性系统评价登记册中注册（CRD42021224954；2021 年 1 月）。定性综合中总共纳入了 23 项研究。情绪调节主要通过一般能力的自我报告来评估（例如，情绪调节困难量表）。对养育方式的评估涵盖了广泛的方面和可操作性。在父母的精神病理学中，情绪调节困难的几个方面与不利的情绪社会化、更消极的养育方式有关，部分与不太积极的养育方式有关。对于创伤后应激障碍和焦虑症观察到的效果略有不同。对于患有抑郁症的父母来说，特定的情绪调节策略（抑制、重新评估）似乎可以缓冲消极养育的影响。由于大多数研究仅涉及母亲，因此对父亲的概括是有限的。此外，由于研究异质性和缺乏前瞻性研究，结论有限。然而，研究结果表明，干预措施应针对改善患有精神病理学的父母的情绪调节。