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Parent, family, and child characteristics: Associations with mother- and father-reported emotion socialization practices
- Source :
- Journal of Family Psychology. 23:452-463
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association (APA), 2009.
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Abstract
- The present research examined parental beliefs about children's negative emotions, parent-reported marital conflict/ambivalence, and child negative emotionality and gender as predictors of mothers' and fathers' reported reactions to their kindergarten children's negative emotions and self-expressiveness in the family (N = 55, two-parent families). Models predicting parents' nonsupportive reactions and negative expressiveness were significant. For both mothers and fathers, more accepting beliefs about children's negative emotions were associated with fewer nonsupportive reactions, and greater marital conflict/ambivalence was associated with more negative expressiveness. Furthermore, interactions between child negative emotionality and parental resources (e.g., marital conflict/ambivalence; accepting beliefs) emerged for fathers' nonsupportive reactions and mothers' negative expressiveness. In some instances, child gender acted as a moderator such that associations between parental beliefs about emotions and the emotion socialization outcomes emerged when child and parent gender were concordant.
- Subjects :
- Male
Character
Family Conflict
Culture
Emotions
Individuality
Ambivalence
Developmental psychology
Social support
Emotionality
Humans
Expressed emotion
Child
Father-Child Relations
General Psychology
Parenting
Socialization
Social change
Gender Identity
Social Support
Moderation
Mother-Child Relations
Social relation
Expressed Emotion
Child, Preschool
Female
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19391293 and 08933200
- Volume :
- 23
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Family Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b631ccefc81855887bfdf8903d21efc8