Data from 58 married couples were used to assess spouses» levels
of emotional expressivity and how these levels predicted reports of marital functioning.
Repeated Measures ANOVAs
of emotional expressivity and emotional flexibility of parent - child dyads with AD and non-AD children
Yet, emotional demands are different across contexts, and the merit
of emotional expressivity and flexibility might depend on the specific social context.
Maternal AD affected levels
of emotional expressivity and emotional flexibility of mother - child dyads with AD children.
Future research should address the role
of emotional expressivity and flexibility of dyads across different contexts.
Not exact matches
The researchers compared their
emotional expressivity results to another demographic measure
of immigration — the sheer number
of home countries represented by immigrants living in each
of 32 countries in 2013 — and found little correlation.
It's meticulously directed, the foley is as sharp and crowd pleasing as the finest Mamet dialogue, and Krasinski doesn't neglect the
emotional core
of the film — the family vying to survive, whose tensions, divisions and turmoil we experience in near silence, but with great
expressivity and economy.
Preliminary t - tests revealed no differences between children and adolescents in levels
of dyadic
emotional expressivity and flexibility.
Targeting
emotional flexibility
of dyads with children with an AD, and also
emotional expressivity of dyads when mother has an AD, might be a valuable goal for family - based intervention.
Measures
of dyadic
emotional expressivity (positive and negative affect) and dyadic
emotional flexibility (transitions, dispersion, average duration) were derived from these interactions using state space grid analysis.
Emotional expressivity of parent - child dyads is thought to be an important indicator of adaptive socio - emotional functioning (Morris et a
Emotional expressivity of parent - child dyads is thought to be an important indicator
of adaptive socio -
emotional functioning (Morris et a
emotional functioning (Morris et al. 2007).
Therefore, a critical question remains whether there are differences between parent - child dyads with AD children and non-AD children in levels
of dyadic
emotional expressivity (i.e., dyadic positive and negative affect).
To further narrow and enhance our understanding
of group differences in dyadic
emotional processes, we investigated the effects
of parents» AD on
emotional expressivity and flexibility in parent - child interactions.
To capture the
emotional expressivity, we derived from GridWare the total duration in seconds
of dyadic positive affect and dyadic negative affect during father - child and mother - child interactions.
Schizophrenia patients showed lower empathic accuracy than controls, and their empathic accuracy was less influenced by the
emotional expressivity of the target.
Since none
of these studies investigated
emotional expressivity as a real - time sequence
of dyadic emotions, one explanation for our results might be that the role
of parents» and children's individual emotions in child anxiety has been overestimated.
Differences between father - child dyads and mother - child dyads were investigated as well as the effects
of parents» AD on dyadic
emotional expressivity and dyadic
emotional flexibility.
Finally, while fathers» contribution and role during interactions with children might be different from that
of mothers, particularly when fathers have an AD themselves (Bögels and Phares 2008; Lunkenheimer et al. 2011; Morris et al. 2007; Suveg et al. 2008), studies mostly examined
emotional expressivity and flexibility
of mother - child dyads.
The current investigation was designed to examine the role
of positive and negative
emotional expressivity in the marital relationship.
For example, mothers» positive
emotional expressivity is one
of the most robust predictors
of adequate social -
emotional functioning in children, including adaptive self - regulation and high social competence (Eisenberg et al. 1998).
Current results may imply that dyadic
emotional flexibility might be a better indicator
of problematic parent - child
emotional processes when comparing AD and non-AD children than dyadic
emotional expressivity.
Vital information about the dyadic and interrelated nature
of emotions might be missing when examining parents» and children's
emotional expressivity during interactions in isolation from each other.
What we do not understand yet is how individual
emotional expressivity (i.e.,
of parents and children) combines in a dyadic context, and how it is related to child anxiety.
Next, the effects
of parental AD on group differences in
expressivity and flexibility were analyzed in additional repeated measures ANOVAs, with
emotional processes as within - subjects factors, and parental AD (Non-AD child and parent, child AD / non-AD parent, child and parent AD) as between - subjects factor.
This observational study examined differences in
emotional expressivity and
emotional flexibility
of parent - child dyads with AD children and non-AD children, the effects
of parental AD on
expressivity and flexibility
of dyads, and differences between father - child and mother - child dyads.
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of parenting, effortful control and ego control to children's
emotional expressivity / Child development 74: 875 ~ 895