Emma Pitt

Emma Pitt completed her Undergraduate and Honours degree in Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington. She is currently deferred from the Clinical Psychology programme at the university to pursue her PhD. Throughout her various work and volunteer roles in child and youth spaces, Emma has cultivated a passion for child development. As such, Emma’s research looks at how parent anxiety influences the development of emotion regulation in their preschool children. Emma is particularly interested in the mechanisms of this relationship, specifically looking at how parent anxiety affects certain parenting processes, such as how parents respond to their children’s negative emotions. Despite anxiety becoming increasingly more common in our communities, it is still heavily under-researched among parents. This research therefore represents a novel endeavour to better understand how we can support whānau when parents are experiencing anxiety.

Emotions, Love, and Motivation (ELMo) Lab