Emotion socialization as a predictor of physiological and psychological responses to stress.
Emotion socialization as a framework for understanding the development of disorganized attachment
Not exact matches
Research Interests:
Emotion - related family processes, such as parents» emotion socialization strategies, children's social - emotional development, and family
Emotion - related family processes, such
as parents»
emotion socialization strategies, children's social - emotional development, and family
emotion socialization strategies, children's social - emotional development, and family stress.
Developmental transitions
as windows to parental
socialization of
emotion.
Table 2 shows descriptive statistics for children's DBD symptoms (i.e., CP and ADHD symptoms) and CU traits, and parental
emotion socialization variables;
as well
as the bivariate correlations among these variables.
Regarding the negative aspects of parental
emotion socialization, higher levels of parents» dismissing of child
emotion —
as directly observed during family emotional conversations — have demonstrated relationships with elevated behavioral problems [37].
Considering the current findings and that there has been very limited research on paternal behavior in relation to CU traits in general, it will be an important endeavor for future research to continue to investigate the differential importance of mothers» and fathers»
emotion socialization styles
as predictors of levels of CU traits.
To test our main hypotheses, the resulting parental
emotion socialization variables were entered alongside potential confounds in multiple regression analyses, with multi-informant CU traits scores
as the dependent variable.
Further, despite accumulated findings on parental
socialization, and early childhood research that shows that teachers are engaging in
emotion socialization behaviours, we know little about how teachers (or, for that matter, peers or siblings) socialize children's EC.34 Research is also needed to discern possible indirect contributors to EC, such
as parental psychopathology, divorce, poverty and child care quality.
Despite these limitations this study extends previous research by formally testing a mediation model including both mothers» and fathers» observed parenting behavior, and examining the relation between parents» psychological problems and their own
as well
as their partner's
emotion socialization behavior.
Furthermore, to date research on the effects of parental psychological problems on
emotion socialization focused mainly on parents» internalizing symptoms, such
as depressed mood and (to a lesser extent) anxiety, while little attention has been given to the potential negative consequences of parents» externalizing symptoms like outbursts of anger and impulsive behavior.
Peers may affect adolescents» behaviors and
emotions through
socialization processes, a phenomenon more generally referred to
as peer influence (Prinstein and Dodge 2008).
Importantly, patterns of
socialization of
emotions and conversational style in the family may be influencing both the coherence in children's narratives by the MCAST (and, consequently, their classifications
as secure) and the production of detailed and rich SBS narratives by the SBST.
Another possibility,
as suggested by Baker et al. (2011), is that fathers are more involved in the process of
socialization of
emotion when children enter in middle childhood.