Parenting Style as a Context for Emotion Socialization

Chan, Siu Mui; Bowes, Jennifer; Wyver, Shirley

doi:10.1080/10409280802541973

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“…In contrast, in many East-Asian societies, cultural norms prioritize respect for elders, loyalty to family, social harmony, and group interests (Mesquita & Albert, 2007). Expression of egofocused emotions such as anger are strictly controlled as they may be disruptive to interpersonal ties, while expression of other-focused emotions such as sympathy are encouraged to promote interpersonal sensitivity (Wang, 2001;Chan et al, 2009).…”

Section: Cultural Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Socialization of Turkish Children's Emotions: Do Different Emotions Elicit Different Responses?

Çorapçı

Aksan

Yağmurlu

2012

Global Studies of Childhood

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This study addressed mothers' specific responses to children's expressions of sadness and anger. The first goal was to determine whether children's sadness and anger expressions elicited different maternal responses. The role of maternal education and child gender was also examined in sadness and anger socialization. Finally, the relations of sadness and anger socialization responses to children's adjustment were examined and the moderating role of children's emotionality in this relation was explored. Data on emotion socialization were obtained from 140 Turkish mothers of preschoolers based on their responses to hypothetical vignettes. Results showed that mothers were more likely to encourage the expression of sadness compared to anger. More educated mothers were less likely to punish and minimize their children's sadness but reported higher distress responses than less educated mothers. Sadness and anger socialization did not differ by child gender. Finally, low levels of emotional support to child anger were related to aggressive behaviors, but only among children with high emotional dysregulation.

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Section: Cultural Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Socialization of Turkish Children's Emotions: Do Different Emotions Elicit Different Responses?

Çorapçı

Aksan

Yağmurlu

2012

Global Studies of Childhood

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“…Ethnic differences have also been evident in the types of reactions parents exhibit. For example, Hong Kong mothers have been found to respond to children’s negative affect by discussing the causes and consequences of emotional displays (response training; Chan, Bowes, & Wyver, 2009); Tamang mothers have been documented as responding with a combination of ignoring and reasoning with the child (Cole et al, 2006); Japanese caregivers have been described as inducing empathy and reflection (Hayashi, Karasawa, & Tobin, 2009); and Indian mothers have been described as responding by communicating the unacceptability of the emotional display and assisting the child in understanding the problem rather than attempting to find a solution for it (Raval & Martini, 2009). …”

Section: Culture and Parental Socialization Of Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotion socialization practices in Latina and European-American mothers of preschoolers with behavior problems

Lugo‐Candelas

Harvey

Breaux

2015

Journal of Family Studies

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The present study examined mothers’ emotion socialization of 3-year-old children with behavior problems, to determine whether emotion socialization practices, as well as the relation between these practices and child functioning, varied across ethnicities. Participants were 134 preschoolers with behavior problems. Mothers were European American (n = 96) and Latina American (n = 38; predominately Puerto Rican). Audiotaped mother-child interactions were coded for emotion socialization behaviors. Latina and European American mothers used similar emotion socialization practices on most dimensions. Latina mothers were more likely to minimize or not respond to their children’s negative affect. However, this difference did not appear to have ramifications for children. This study provided evidence for both differences and similarities across ethnicities on emotion socialization practices.

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“…Using the cultural models of self-construal (Markus and Kitayama, 2001) and emotion competence (Chan et al, 2009) as guiding theoretical frameworks and building on previous cross-cultural research on emotion display rules and emotion socialization, we predicted four main hypotheses: We expected that the storybooks from all three countries would display positive emotion displays to a greater extent than negative emotions.Negative emotion displays in American children's storybooks will represent a higher proportion of negative powerful and a lower proportion of negative powerless emotion expressions compared to Turkish and Romanian books.American children's storybooks will display higher intensity of expressivity for positive and powerful negative emotions compared to both Romanian and Turkish books. Due to the limited evidence, the examination of the cultural differences in negative powerless emotions is exploratory in the current study.…”

Section: Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotion displays in media: a comparison between American, Romanian, and Turkish children's storybooks

Wege¹,

González²,

Friedlmeier³

et al. 2014

Front. Psychol.

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Children's books may provide an important resource of culturally appropriate emotions. This study investigates emotion displays in children's storybooks for preschoolers from Romania, Turkey, and the US in order to analyze cultural norms of emotions. We derived some hypotheses by referring to cross-cultural studies about emotion and emotion socialization. For such media analyses, the frequency rate of certain emotion displays can be seen as an indicator for the salience of the specific emotion. We expected that all children's storybooks would highlight dominantly positive emotions and that US children's storybooks would display negative powerful emotions (e.g., anger) more often and negative powerless emotions (e.g., sadness) less often than Turkish and Romanian storybooks. We also predicted that the positive and negative powerful emotion expressions would be more intense in the US storybooks compared to the other storybooks. Finally, we expected that social context (ingroup/outgroup) may affect the intensity emotion displays more in Turkish and Romanian storybooks compared to US storybooks. Illustrations in 30 popular children's storybooks (10 for each cultural group) were coded. Results mostly confirmed the hypotheses but also pointed to differences between Romanian and Turkish storybooks. Overall, the study supports the conclusion that culture-specific emotion norms are reflected in media to which young children are exposed.

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Parenting Style as a Context for Emotion Socialization

Cited by 94 publications

References 55 publications

Socialization of Turkish Children's Emotions: Do Different Emotions Elicit Different Responses?

Socialization of Turkish Children's Emotions: Do Different Emotions Elicit Different Responses?

Emotion socialization practices in Latina and European-American mothers of preschoolers with behavior problems

Emotion displays in media: a comparison between American, Romanian, and Turkish children's storybooks

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