As boys get older, and approach mid-elementary school years, most will pull back and
express less emotion.
Not exact matches
• In the same sample, 5 - 6 year olds who had been securely attached to both parents early on,
expressed less negative
emotion (Easterbrooks and Goldberg, 1990).
Your little one is still learning how to
express her
emotions and sometimes she might be a little dramatic, but it's a good moment for you to validate those feelings and teach her how to communicate in a better (and
less destructive) way.
When mothers are depressed, they tend to be
less organized,
less responsive, more likely to
express negative
emotions, and
less likely to be engaged with their children, says Kate Fogarty, assistant professor of youth development at the University of Florida.
In one study in the Journal of Psychology Science, psychologists show that when you hold in your
emotions, the feeling does not have the ability to dissipate from your body, but when you identify and
express the
emotions, it allows your body to feel
less of this
emotion in your body [3].
They are more inclined to
express their
emotions, have
less stress and a positive impact on cholesterol levels.
Children to understand that all
emotions, positive and
less positive, are valid and worth
expressing.
Low
expressed emotion is considered to be
less than six critical (Hooley & Hiller, 2000).
A couple of studies considered this idea of education, and each study came out with the same answer:
less educated professionals tend to have higher
expressed emotion than more educated professionals (Barrowclough et al., 2001; Van Humbeeck et al, 2002).
Receiving regular observational feedback was associated with greater encouragement of
expressing emotion and with
less negative social guidance.
For example, men are often taught in our society that
expressing their
emotions is a sign of weakness, so they may be
less prone to overt emotional manifestations than women.
This means that when both mothers and children had an AD, dyads
expressed more positive and negative affect, displayed
emotions for longer periods of time, and switched
less between
emotions compared to dyads where only children, not mothers, had an AD and compared to dyads with non-AD children and mothers.
Like children with an AD, parents with an AD might also not possess adaptive resources for
expressing and managing positive and negative
emotions, thereby further contributing to
less adaptive emotional patterns of parent - child dyads (Morris et al. 2007).
Also, parents of children with an AD tend to encourage the suppression of emotional expression, and
express less positive and more negative
emotions themselves (Hudson et al. 2008; Suveg et al. 2008).
During
emotion discussions, mothers of children with an AD
expressed less positive
emotions than mothers of non-AD children and discouraged the discussion of negative emotional experiences (Suveg et al. 2005).
The authors also found that, using a global emotional and motivational scaffolding scale, mothers demonstrated improved co-regulation (i.e. higher ratings of global motivational and emotional scaffolding, higher frequency of more adaptive strategies such as redirection of attention) over the course of the intervention, and that this was also associated with improvements in toddler
emotion regulation (i.e.
less expressed negativity and avoidance).