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01-11-2014 | Original Paper

Child and Family Emotional Functioning: A Cross-National Examination of Families from China and the United States

Auteurs: Cynthia Suveg, James N. Raley, Diana Morelen, Wei Wang, Rachel Z. Han, Scott Campion

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies | Uitgave 8/2014

Abstract

Scant research has examined links between particular emotion socialization processes and child emotion functioning cross-nationally. In this study, we assessed a sample of 55 families from the United States (U.S.; 28 boys and 27 girls) and 49 families from China (27 boys and 22 girls) on family emotional expressiveness and children’s emotional experiences and regulation. Results indicated that children and families from the U.S. reported greater emotional expressiveness than their Chinese counterparts. Children from the U.S. also reported greater undercontrolled emotion than Chinese youth. Family expression of positive emotion was related to effortful emotion regulation in U.S. youth only, whereas family expression of negative emotion was associated with undercontrolled emotion for both U.S. and Chinese children. Our findings advance context-specific models of emotional development by illustrating similarities and differences in emotional functioning among U.S. and Chinese families. From a clinical perspective, the findings suggest that practitioners should consider the cultural variations of emotion communication within families when conducting both assessment and therapy.

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Titel: Child and Family Emotional Functioning: A Cross-National Examination of Families from China and the United States
Auteurs: Cynthia Suveg
James N. Raley
Diana Morelen
Wei Wang
Rachel Z. Han
Scott Campion
Publicatiedatum: 01-11-2014
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies / Uitgave 8/2014
Print ISSN: 1062-1024
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2843
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-013-9800-8

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