The way in which parents discuss children's past emotional events with them is associated with various outcomes in children, such as emotion regulation skills and behavior problems. For children growing up with adverse experiences such as witnessing domestic violence, it is particularly important to understand the link between emotion dialogues and child functioning, because parents' guidance in dialogues about emotional events may be hampered or suboptimal. Previous studies on parent-child emotion dialogues using the Autobiographical Emotional Events Dialogues (AEED) measure usually focused on composite scores, failing to take into account the various aspects of parent-child emotion dialogues. Therefore, we examined (a) whether a multidimensional structure in the 16 quality rating scales of the AEED can be found in two samples of trauma-exposed and nonexposed parent-child dyads (