Parents’ Beliefs about Children’s Emotions and Parents’ Emotion-Related Conversations with Their Children

Lozada, Fantasy T.; Halberstadt, Amy G.; Craig, Ashley B.; Dennis, Paul A.; Dunsmore, Julie C.

doi:10.1007/s10826-015-0325-1

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“…Unlike savoring, which may be more socially acceptable and directly involve the child, dampening may be more private (doubts and negative thoughts not expressed). This may be especially true in our predominantly European American sample given that European Americans engage in higher levels of encouragement of PA when compared to other ethnicities (Lozada, Halberstadt, Craig, Dennis, & Dunsmore, ) and cultures (Kartner, Holodynski, & Wormann, ). Overall, savoring and dampening may be socialized through unique paths.…”

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Maternal socialization of children’s positive affect regulation: Associations with children’s savoring, dampening, and depressive symptoms

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Maternal socialization of positive affect (PA) is linked to children's regulation of positive and negative emotions and the development of psychopathology. However, few studies have examined multiple types of emotion socialization as related to children's PA regulation and depressive symptoms. The current study examined how mothers’ socialization of children's PA regulation was related to children's PA regulation, and if children's PA regulation mediated the association between maternal socialization and children's depressive symptoms. Ninety‐six mother–child dyads (children aged 7–12) completed questionnaires and a five‐minute discussion about a positive event the child previously experienced; 76 dyads completed surveys again five months later. Partial correlations, controlling for child age and gender, indicated associations between maternal PA socialization and child PA regulation. Moderated mediation models suggested that maternal modeling of savoring predicted Time 2 child depressive symptoms via children's own savoring, which was moderated by Time 1 depressive symptoms. The moderated path indicated that only for children who reported higher depressive symptoms at Time 1, higher levels of savoring predicted lower depressive symptoms at Time 2. These results underscore the importance of examining multiple types of PA socialization and child PA regulation to predict children's depressive symptoms longitudinally.

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Maternal socialization of children’s positive affect regulation: Associations with children’s savoring, dampening, and depressive symptoms

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“…Responses were averaged across items to create a mean score of that subscale. Construct validity is provided by previous studies in middle childhood (Castro et al, ; Lozada et al, ).…”

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“…Presumably, socialization behaviors are in part guided by parents' beliefs about the nature and value of emotion, further infusing the broader familial “climate” around emotions (Garrett‐Peters, Castro, & Halberstadt, ; Lozada, Halberstadt, Craig, Dennis, & Dunsmore, ; Meyer, Raikes, Virmani, Waters, & Thompson, ). Of particular interest are parents' beliefs that children's emotions are valuable or dangerous (Dunsmore, Her, Halberstadt, & Perez‐Rivera, ).…”

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Mothers' interoceptive knowledge predicts children's emotion regulation and social skills in middle childhood

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Interoception, often defined as the perception of internal physiological changes, is implicated in many adult social affective processes, but its effects remain understudied in the context of parental socialization of children's emotions. We hypothesized that what parents know about the interoceptive concomitants of emotions, or interoceptive knowledge (e.g., “my heart races when excited”), may be especially relevant in emotion socialization and in supporting children's working models of emotions and the social world. We developed a measure of mothers' interoceptive knowledge about their own emotions and examined its relation to children's social affective outcomes relative to other socialization factors, including self‐reported parental behaviors, emotion beliefs, and knowledge of emotion‐relevant situations and non‐verbal expressions. To assess these, mothers (N = 201) completed structured interviews and questionnaires. A few months later, third‐grade teachers rated children's social skills and emotion regulation observed in the classroom. Results indicated that mothers' interoceptive knowledge about their own emotions was associated with children's social affective skills (emotion regulation, social initiative, cooperation, self‐control), even after controlling for child gender and ethnicity, family income, maternal stress, and the above maternal socialization factors. Overall, findings suggest that mothers' interoceptive knowledge may provide an additional, unique pathway by which children acquire social affective competence.

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“…African American mothers, who held the stronger belief that their children should not display negative emotions, reported less supportive responses to their children’s anger than their European American counterparts (Nelson, Leerkes, O’Brien, Calkins, & Marcovitch, ). Parents who believed that emotions are problematic or dangerous also engaged in less labeling of negative emotion, which is an effective strategy to help children learn the emotional experiences of themselves and others (Lozada et al, ). Our finding advances this body of literature by indicating that fathers’ belief about the danger of children’s negative emotions plays the same role in shaping children’s emotional functioning as compared to mothers’.…”

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Within‐ and between‐individual variation in fathers’ emotional expressivity in Chinese families: Contributions of children’s emotional expressivity and fathers’ emotion‐related beliefs and perceptions

2019

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Parental emotion socialization is a dynamic process encompassing moment-to-moment fluctuations in parents' emotional displays and responsiveness. This study attempted to examine the within-and between-individual variation in fathers' emotional expressivity during a real-time father-child interaction in Chinese families. Eighty-five children (M age = 7.58 years, SD = 0.50 years, 47.1% boys) from east China and their biological fathers participated in the study.Fathers' and children's emotional expressivity were ob-

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Parents’ Beliefs about Children’s Emotions and Parents’ Emotion-Related Conversations with Their Children

Cited by 54 publications

References 55 publications

Maternal socialization of children’s positive affect regulation: Associations with children’s savoring, dampening, and depressive symptoms

Maternal socialization of children’s positive affect regulation: Associations with children’s savoring, dampening, and depressive symptoms

Mothers' interoceptive knowledge predicts children's emotion regulation and social skills in middle childhood

Within‐ and between‐individual variation in fathers’ emotional expressivity in Chinese families: Contributions of children’s emotional expressivity and fathers’ emotion‐related beliefs and perceptions

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