A Meta-Analysis of Family Expressiveness and Children's Emotion Expressiveness and Understanding

Halberstadt, Amy G.; Eaton, Kimberly L.

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“…Evolutionary perspective provides one possible explanation for this result by suggesting that children growing up in moderately threatening environments develop low responsivity to threat cues, which helps them to avoid unnecessary stress responses (Del Giudice et al, 2013). A moderate degree of negative expressivity in the family has been shown to decrease children's negative emotionality and foster emotional understanding (Halberstadt & Kimberly, 2002). Authoritarian families in our study were characterized by strong family boundaries, likely providing protection against interparental conflicts (e.g., Sturge-Apple et al, 2014 The strengths of our study involve modelling the children's dynamic family systems using rich information about early family relationships.…”

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Early family system types predict children’s emotional attention biases at school age

Lindblom

Peltola

Vänskä

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International Journal of Behavioral Development

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Abstract:The family environment shapes children's social information processing and emotion regulation. Yet, the long-term effects of early family systems have rarely been studied. This study investigated how family system types predict children's attentional biases toward facial expressions at the age of 10 years. The participants were 79 children from Cohesive, Disengaged, Enmeshed, and Authoritarian family types based on marital and parental relationship trajectories from pregnancy to the age of 12 months. A dotprobe task was used to assess children's emotional attention biases toward threatening (angry) and affiliative (happy) faces at the early (500 ms) and late (1250 ms) stages of processing. Situational priming was applied to activate children's sense of danger or safety. Results showed that children from Cohesive families had an early-stage attentional bias toward threat, whereas children from Enmeshed families had a late-stage bias toward threat. Children from Disengaged families had an early-stage attentional bias toward threat, but showed in addition a late-stage bias away from emotional faces (i.e., both angry and happy). Children from Authoritarian families, in turn, showed a late-stage attentional bias toward emotional faces. Situational priming did not moderate the effects of family system types on children's attentional biases. The findings confirm the influence of early family systems on the attentional biases, suggesting differences in the emotion regulation strategies children have developed to adapt to their family environments.http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijbd International Journal of Behavioral Development regulation. Yet, the long-term effects of early family systems have rarely been studied. This study investigated how family system types predict children's attentional biases toward facial expressions at the age of 10 years. The participants were 79 children from Cohesive, Disengaged, Enmeshed, and Authoritarian family types based on marital and parental relationship trajectories from pregnancy to the age of 12 months. A dot-probe task was used to assess children's emotional attention biases toward threatening (angry) and affiliative (happy) faces at the early (500 ms) and late (1250 ms) stages of processing. Situational priming was applied to activate children's sense of danger or safety. Results showed that children from Cohesive families had an early-stage attentional bias toward threat, whereas children from Enmeshed families had a late-stage bias toward threat. Children from Disengaged families had an early-stage attentional bias toward threat, but showed in addition a late-stage bias away from emotional faces (i.e., both angry and happy). Children from Authoritarian families, in turn, showed a late-stage attentional bias toward emotional faces.Situational priming did not moderate the effects of family system types on children's attentional biases. The findings confirm the influence of early family systems on the attentional biases, suggesting differences in the emotion regulation...

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Early family system types predict children’s emotional attention biases at school age

Lindblom

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Vänskä

et al. 2016

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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“…İlgili alan yazında, ebeveynlerin duygu sosyalleştirmeye yöneliktutum, deneyim ve uygulama gibi özelliklerinin, çocukların duyguları anlamaları ile ilişkili olduğu belirtilmekte (Edwards, Shipman ve Brown, 2005) ve ebeveynlerin farklı duygulara ilişkin inançlarının süreçteki önemine işaret edilmektedir (Chaplin, Casey, Sinha ve Mayes, 2010;Dunsmore ve Karn, 2001;Perez-Rivera, 2008). Bununla birlikte ailelerin duyguları ifade etme stilleri ile çocukların duyguları ifade etme ve anlama becerileri arasındaki ilişkiyi açıklamak üzere gerçekleştirilen meta analiz çalışması ailelerin olumlu duygu ifade etme stratejileri ile çocukların duyguları anlama becerilerinin her yaşta ilişkili bulunmadığını göstermektedir (Halberstadt ve Eaton, 2002). Denham ve Kochanoff'a (2002) göre, annelerin duygusal ifade ve davranış deneyimlerinin, çocuk yetiştirmenin duygu boyutuna ilişkin tutumlarına temel oluşturmaktadır.…”

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Emotion Regulation and Emotion Understanding in Preschoolers as a Predictor of the Maternal Socialization of Emotion

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Arnas

2018

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“…This is of concern because the auditory system matures earlier than the visual system [64,65] and understanding of vocal emotion expressions plays a major role in early emotional development [38,67]. Halberstadt & Eaton [68] reported that reduced family expressiveness of emotions through facial expressions and voice were associated with poor emotion understanding and expression in children. Early aberrations in emotion processing need to be identified and treated in order to ensure normal social and emotional development.…”

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Prosody Perception in Typically Developing School-aged Children

Kalathottukaren¹,

Purdy²

2017

J Phonet and Audiol

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Purpose: To report normative data for prosody perception abilities in typically developing school-aged children.Method: Four receptive prosody subtests of the Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication (PEPS-C) and the Child Paralanguage subtest of Diagnostic Analysis of Non Verbal Accuracy 2 (DANVA 2) were administered to 45 children divided into three age groups, with mean ages 7.84, 10.13, and 11.90 years. Results:Overall results indicated significant age-related improvements in performance on PEPS-C Chunking and Contrastive Stress Reception subtests. Accuracy for emotion recognition differed significantly across the two levels of emotion intensity for the DANVA 2. High emotion intensity items yielded better accuracy compared to low intensity items. A confusion matrix for the DANVA 2 showed that errors were not randomly distributed; some pairs of emotions were confused with one another more often than others. The lowest perceptual accuracy was observed for fear and sadness. Conclusions:Normative data for prosody perception abilities in typically developing school aged children were reported using PEPS-C receptive prosody subtests and DANVA 2 Child Paralanguage subtest. The development of receptive prosodic skills mostly occurs between 7 and 9 years. Findings of this study have clinical implications for assessing prosody perception in atypical populations.

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A Meta-Analysis of Family Expressiveness and Children's Emotion Expressiveness and Understanding

Cited by 177 publications

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Early family system types predict children’s emotional attention biases at school age

Early family system types predict children’s emotional attention biases at school age

Emotion Regulation and Emotion Understanding in Preschoolers as a Predictor of the Maternal Socialization of Emotion

Prosody Perception in Typically Developing School-aged Children

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