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Family Functioning, Emotion Socialization, and Children’s Social Competence: Gender-Specific Effects in Chinese Families

Auteurs: Danhua Zhu, Yinghe Chen, Longfeng Li, Julie C. Dunsmore

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies | Uitgave 1/2023

Abstract

Contemporary Chinese society blends traditional and new views of children’s emotions and social behavior. Research shows that family functioning and parents’ supportive emotion socialization benefit children’s social competence. Family functioning may influence parent-child interactions, thus we expected both direct and indirect (through emotion socialization) relations of family functioning with children’s social competence, indexed as prosocial and problem behavior. We explored parent gender and child gender differences. Participants were 365 mothers and 204 fathers of 5- to 10-year-old children from central and eastern China who completed online questionnaires. Structural Equation Modeling results showed that for both mothers and fathers, better family functioning related to more supportive and less nonsupportive emotion socialization responses. Moreover, family functioning showed an indirect influence on children’s problem behavior via parental nonsupportive responses (better family functioning related to lower nonsupportive responses, which related to lower problem behavior). For mothers only, family functioning related to children’s prosocial behavior directly (better family functioning related to higher prosocial behavior) and indirectly via supportive responses (better family functioning related to higher supportive responses, which related to higher prosocial behavior). Model invariance across child gender was tested and results showed that maternal supportive responses related more strongly to prosocial behavior among daughters than sons. Maternal nonsupportive emotion socialization responses related more strongly to problem behavior among sons than daughters; paternal nonsupportive responses related more strongly related to problem behaviors among daughters than sons. Findings support the role of family functioning in parental emotion socialization and suggest gender-specific influences of parental emotion socialization.

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Titel: Family Functioning, Emotion Socialization, and Children’s Social Competence: Gender-Specific Effects in Chinese Families
Auteurs: Danhua Zhu
Yinghe Chen
Longfeng Li
Julie C. Dunsmore
Publicatiedatum: 04-11-2022
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies / Uitgave 1/2023
Print ISSN: 1062-1024
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2843
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02480-1

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