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13-02-2024 | Original Paper

Etch the Emotional Life: Mother-Child Emotion Socialization from Age 3 to 6 Years

Auteurs: Danhua Zhu, Jenna B. Terry, Karen E. Talley, Martha Ann Bell, Julie C. Dunsmore

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies | Uitgave 5/2024

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Abstract

Emotion socialization is conceptualized as a relational process, yet children’s role in socializing parents’ emotions is rarely considered. This study explored longitudinal patterns of mother-child emotion socialization from early to middle childhood. Participants were 349 children (51% boys, 49% girls) and their mothers from the southeastern United States. Children were 79.4% White, 12% Black or African American, and 8.3% multi-racial or other; 6.3% were Hispanic/Latino. Mother-child dyads completed an etch-a-sketch task when children were 3, 4, and 6 years old. At each time, mothers’ and children’s expression, coaching, and dismissing of positive and negative emotions were observed. Hierarchical Linear Modeling analyses identified developmental trajectories and within-dyad associations of emotion coaching and dismissing with emotion expression. Over time, expression of positive emotions decreased and expression of negative emotions showed no change for both mothers and children. Mothers decreased in coaching children’s positive emotions and showed no change in coaching children’s negative emotions. Children increased in coaching mothers’ positive emotions and showed no change in coaching mothers’ negative emotions over time. Both mothers and children decreased in dismissing emotions over time. Within dyads, mothers’ increases in coaching and in dismissing related to children’s increased expression. Children’s increases in coaching related to mothers’ increased expression. Findings highlight complexity and dynamics of emotion socialization processes over time.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Etch the Emotional Life: Mother-Child Emotion Socialization from Age 3 to 6 Years
Auteurs
Danhua Zhu
Jenna B. Terry
Karen E. Talley
Martha Ann Bell
Julie C. Dunsmore
Publicatiedatum
13-02-2024
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Child and Family Studies / Uitgave 5/2024
Print ISSN: 1062-1024
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2843
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02799-x