Fathers' Early Emotion Talk: Associations With Income, Ethnicity, and Family Factors

Garrett‐Peters, Patricia; Mills‐Koonce, W. Roger; Zerwas, Stephanie; Cox, Martha J.; Vernon–Feagans, Lynne

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00810.x

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“…In this study and similar to previous research (e.g., Garner, 2003; Sales et al, 2003; Curenton and Craig, 2011; Garrett-Peters et al, 2011; Brownell et al, 2013), emotion words were analyzed as proportions. By using proportions rather than total frequencies, participants' total amount of talk was controlled.…”

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Spanish parents' emotion talk and their children's understanding of emotion

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Tenenbaum

2013

Front. Psychol.

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Relations between parent-child emotion talk and children's emotion understanding were examined in 63 Spanish mothers and fathers and their 4- (M = 53.35 months, SD = 3.86) and 6-year-old (M = 76.62 months, SD = 3.91) children. Parent-child emotion talk was analyzed during two storytelling tasks: a play-related storytelling task and a reminiscence task (conversation about past experiences). Children's emotion understanding was assessed twice through a standardized test of emotion comprehension (TEC; Pons et al., 2004), once before one of the two parent-child storytelling sessions and again 6 months later. Mothers' use of emotion labels during the play-related storytelling task predicted children's emotion understanding after controlling for children's previous emotion understanding. Whereas fathers' use of emotion labels during the play-related storytelling task was correlated with children's emotion understanding, it did not predict children's emotion understanding after controlling for previous emotion understanding. Implications of these findings for future research on children's socioemotional development are discussed.

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confidence: 76%

Spanish parents' emotion talk and their children's understanding of emotion

Aznar

Tenenbaum

2013

Front. Psychol.

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“…Among the very few studies to look at the associations between income and verbal behavior of African American fathers, a recent study examined talk about emotions among fathers drawn from the same study population used in the current investigation. This study found that fathers’ talk about negative emotions was positively associated with income for African American fathers (Garrett-Peters, Miss-Koonce, Zerwas, Cox, & The Family Life Project Investigators, 2011). This finding was not replicated among non-African American fathers.…”

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Work characteristics and fathers' vocabulary to infants in African American families

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Vernon–Feagans

Odom

2013

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

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Fathers’ vocabulary to infants has been linked in the literature to early child language development, however, little is known about the variability in fathers’ language behavior. This study considered associations between fathers’ work characteristics and fathers’ vocabulary among a sample of employed African American fathers of 6-month old infants who were living in low-income rural communities. After controlling for family and individual factors, we found that fathers who worked nonstandard shifts and reported more job flexibility used more diverse vocabulary with their infants.

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“…They proposed that the appropriateness and hence effect of parents’ non-supportive emotion socialization on children's subsequent emotional adjustment varies by ethnicity because of different socio-cultural experiences and expectations (Cole & Tan, 2007; Ogbu, 1981). Specifically, non-supportive emotion socialization is more normative in African American families (Halberstadt, Craig, Lozada, & Brown, 2011; Leerkes & Siepak, 2006; Montague et al, 2003; Nelson et al, 2012) and may be a deliberate effort to teach children to minimize their emotions in an effort to protect them from racism (Garrett-Peters et al, 2008, 2011; Nelson et al, 2012). If African American children accurately perceive that their parents engage in non-supportive responses to their negative emotions in an effort to protect them from discrimination (by recognizing that the expression of negative emotions may be interpreted negatively by European Americans), they may view this as evidence of their parents’ love and concern; a feeling that should be reinforced by the within-group normativeness of this behavior.…”

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Ethnic Differences in Women's Emotional Reactions to Parental Nonsupportive Emotion Socialization

Leerkes

Supple

Gudmunson

2014

Marriage & Family Review

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Recent evidence suggests that the association between parents’ use of non-supportive emotion socialization practices and their children's subsequent negative emotional outcomes varies based on ethnicity. The goal of this study is to test the proposition that African American women interpret parental non-supportive emotion socialization practices less negatively than European American women. In this study, 251 European and African American women completed a measure on recalled feelings when their parents engaged in non-supportive emotion socialization practices during childhood. Results indicated that African American women reported feeling more loved and less hurt and ashamed than European American women when their parents enacted non-supportive emotion socialization practices such as ignoring, punishing, minimizing, and teasing them when distressed. Possible mechanisms for this difference and the need for additional research exploring ethnic differences in emotion socialization and its effects on adjustment are discussed.

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Fathers' Early Emotion Talk: Associations With Income, Ethnicity, and Family Factors

Abstract: Contextual, mother-, child-, and father-level variables were examined in association with fathers' emotion talk to infants during a shared picture book activity, in an ethnically diverse, low-income sample (N = 549). Significant main effects included the rate of emotion talk from

Cited by 42 publications

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Spanish parents' emotion talk and their children's understanding of emotion

Spanish parents' emotion talk and their children's understanding of emotion

Work characteristics and fathers' vocabulary to infants in African American families

Ethnic Differences in Women's Emotional Reactions to Parental Nonsupportive Emotion Socialization

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