Gender differences in emotional reminiscing in a Scandinavian sample

Svane, Riikka P.; Zaman, Widaad; Merrill, Natalie; Krøjgaard, Peter; Fıvush, Robyn

doi:10.1111/sjop.12802

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“…Yet, some studies did not claim gender differences in mother-child reminiscing. For instance, Svane et al (2022) explored the gender differences in emotional memory conversations, and they did not find significant results neither for the parent's gender nor for the child's gender. However, the gender ideology of the parents and the cultural context may have mattered in finding nonsignificant results since they conducted the study with a sample of Danish citizens of a mainly egalitarian culture.…”

Section: Child's Gender and Its Effect On Mother-child Reminiscingmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…In several studies, female children were found to have an advantage over boys regarding the total word usage and the intensity of emotional expression in the reminiscing context due to the differential socialization process imposed by their parents. However, some studies failed to indicate such gender differences, as well (e.g., Svane et al, 2022). Therefore, gender differences in the reminiscing context should be further investigated to clarify this issue.…”

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Current Effect of Mother-Child Memory Talk on Emotion Regulation, Self-Esteem, and Memory

BORHAN

2024

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education

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Children talking to their parents more frequently about past experiences tend to have higher emotion regulation skills and self-esteem in their future lives, which may lead to higher volume and richer emotional content in future memories. Previous research also indicated that self-esteem has a strong bond with emotion regulation skills. This study’s aim is to measure the mediator roles of emotion regulation difficulty and self-esteem on the relationship between childhood maternal reminiscing frequency and the volume and emotional content of the current memory experienced with the mother. Additionally, mediator roles of self-esteem in the connection between past maternal reminiscing and emotion regulation difficulty, and emotion regulation difficulty in the relationship between self-esteem and the current memory variables (i.e., total words, total emotion and unique emotion words) are examined. Participants (N=124, the age range was 22-39) filled out Rosenberg Self-Esteem, Emotion Regulation Difficulty, and Family Reminiscence Scales and wrote down one negatively-charged recent memory about their mothers. Path analysis revealed significant positive associations between past maternal reminiscing and self-esteem, emotion regulation difficulty, and total and unique emotion words in recent memory, and negative association between self-esteem and emotion regulation difficulty, supporting half of the mediation hypotheses. Results supported the notion that the frequency of parent-child reminiscing conversations in childhood is a parameter of child development since it can show its prospective effect via improving self-esteem and emotional functioning. Gender differences were not evident for current memory variables but more research on this issue is needed to reach more precise conclusions.

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Section: Child's Gender and Its Effect On Mother-child Reminiscingmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Current Effect of Mother-Child Memory Talk on Emotion Regulation, Self-Esteem, and Memory

BORHAN

2024

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education

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“…Moreover, it would be more inclusive to reveal studies examining gender differences in language on both the content and the linguistic level. Current literature does not generally encompass both; some studies focused on gender differences only on the linguistic level (Lange & Zaretsky, 2021), and some other studies demonstrated gender differences only in emotional content (Svane et al, 2022). To reach a more precise and more generalizable conclusion about gender differences in language, either linguistic variables or content variables such as emotional expression, all studies should be summarized, and a conclusion should be drawn based on the findings.…”

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“…Especially cultural characteristics would matter regarding whether parents internalize egalitarian or traditional gender ideology when transferring the emotional socialization process to their children. This is because parents with a more egalitarian gender view are less likely to consider the child's gender when interacting and teaching emotional expression (Svane et al, 2022). Traditional families, on the other hand, would consider the child's gender and interact accordingly.…”

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A Review Study About Gender Differences in Expressive Language: Spoken And Written Language Differences

BORHAN

2024

Gelişim Ve Psikoloji Dergisi

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This review article aimed at explaining gender differences in expressive language that emerge beginning from the childhood from the biopsychosocial model of perspective. Afterwards, especially parental role on emotional component of expressive language was specified by giving example research studies. The most important finding was that parent and child gender may interact on child’s emotional expressiveness; while mothers tend to encourage their children to emotionally express themselves more than fathers, both mothers and fathers of girls motivate their children more to be emotionally assertive as compared to parents of boys. Parental socialization of expressive language and more specifically of emotional expressiveness results in some gender differences in both oral communication and written language among both adults and adolescents. Similar gender differences can also be observed in online communication. It seems that these differences relate both the level of linguistic effectiveness in general and mostly emotional component of the language, which is emotional expressiveness. Literature indicates that a substantial level of gender differences in language is related to socialization processes that children go through and such gender differences may put especially boys at a disadvantaged position in terms of social and emotional development. Future studies may further investigate gender differences in language and reasons behind such differences from both biological and social perspectives. Since Besides, some intervention programs for gender equality can be developed and applied in related contexts such as families and school environment.

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Earliest versus other autobiographical memories of school-age children

Kangaslampi

2023

Curr Psychol

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Earliest memories have been the topic of scientific research for over a century and seen use as tools of clinical assessment. Still, it remains unclear whether they are in some way distinct or revealing about the person reporting them. This preregistered study examined whether children’s self-reported earliest memories differ from other memories, and how their features link with mood and gender. Urban 9–13-year-old children in Finland (N = 166) reported on their earliest memory and another old autobiographical memory, and mood. Memories were coded for specificity, thematic content, social orientation, and emotional content. No differences between earliest and other memories were noted in specificity, trauma- and accident-related content, or emotional content. However, earliest memories had more play- and less visit-related content and were less likely to be social. Negative mood did not generally correlate with features of memories. Girls reported more social earliest and other memories, and more positive earliest memories. The findings are compared to research in other cultural environments. Overall, they do not support a privileged position for the earliest memory as an object of scientific research or clinical assessment.

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Gender differences in emotional reminiscing in a Scandinavian sample

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Current Effect of Mother-Child Memory Talk on Emotion Regulation, Self-Esteem, and Memory

Current Effect of Mother-Child Memory Talk on Emotion Regulation, Self-Esteem, and Memory

A Review Study About Gender Differences in Expressive Language: Spoken And Written Language Differences

Earliest versus other autobiographical memories of school-age children

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