Do parents respond in different ways when children feel different emotions? The emotional context of parenting.
When children experience emotions, do they view their primary caregiver as reacting in a different manner depending on the children's different emotions? Parental socialization of negative emotions and child psychopathology were examined among 161 inner city youth ages 11-14 years. These early adolescents were more likely to perceive their parents as responding in a different manner to different emotions than responding in the same way to different emotions. In addition, we asked if emotion-specific socialization strategies tell us more about child psychopathology than global socialization strategies do. Exploratory analyses suggest that a mixture of both emotion-specific and global socialization strategies may best predict child psychopathology. It remains important to clarify the emotional context of socialization strategies.
O'Neal
Colleen R
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New York University, Institute for Prevention Science, NYU Child Study Center, NYU School of Medicine, 215 Lexington Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10016, USA. onealc01@med.nyu.edu
Magai
Carol
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D004644:Emotions; D005239:Fear; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011678:Punishment; D012201:Reward