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Yenny Salamanca Camargo, Delcides Andrés Córdoba Dávila, Maira Alejandra Alvarado Fonseca
Studies conducted in different countries have emphasized the importance of the beliefs and expectations of parents regarding their children, as well as the presence of high levels of expressed emotion as predictors of variety of psychopathological disorders. This study aimed to identify the correlation between cognitive factors and expressed emotion in 86 parents of children aged 5 to 8 years from a municipaly in Colombia, based on the Parental Cognitive Factors Assessment Instrument and the Expressed Emotion Questionnaire E5- Short, Parent Version. The results indicate the existence of positive attributions, beliefs, and expectations about their own children, not necessarily all children, and a predominantly negative view regarding the role of parents, in addition to low levels of expressed emotion being identified. Although the identified relationships are mostly non-significant, there are high degrees of overlap and codependency among them, which is consistent with the findings from previous studies showing that the attributions, beliefs, and expectations of parents can be related to emotional aspects linked to expressed emotion, such as criticism, hostility, and emotional over-involvement.
