title: Five-minute speech sample measure of expressed emotion among parents of typically developing Italian children: a pilot study.
abstract: Although community samples have been used for comparison with at-risk and disturbed children, very few studies have examined parental Expressed Emotion in family members of typically developing children. This descriptive study reports Expressed Emotion for a community-based Italian sample of mothers and fathers of children without clinical mental health problems (N=101) ages 6 to 11 years (M = 8.2, SD = 1.4). Children were drawn from regular elementary schools in Italy. Expressed Emotion was measured using the Five-minute Speech Sample. Mothers', fathers', and families' Expressed Emotion frequencies and percents were calculated, as well as frequencies and percents of Expressed Emotion subcomponents of Criticism and Emotional Over-involvement. As expected, low rates were found. There were no significant differences between fathers' and mothers' Expressed Emotion categories.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e della Formazione Università di Perugia, Italy. loredanalaghezza@libero.it
authors.forename: Loredana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Laghezza
authors.forename: Elisa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Delvecchio
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salcuni
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Di Riso
authors.forename: Daphne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chessa
authors.forename: Adriana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lis
authors.forename: Martha C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Tompson
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D019260:Expressed Emotion; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012016:Reference Values