Reschke PJ, Clifford BN, Brown M, Siufanua M, Graver H, Cooper AM, Porter CL, Stockdale LA, Coyne SM. Links between parent-child conversations about emotions and changes in children's emotion knowledge across early childhood.
Child Dev 2024;
95:82-97. [PMID:
37418119 DOI:
10.1111/cdev.13960]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2022] [Revised: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 06/06/2023] [Indexed: 07/08/2023]
Abstract
This study examined different sources of emotion socialization. Children (N = 256, 115 girls, 129 boys, 12 child gender not reported) and parents (62% White, 9% Black, 19% Hispanic, 3% Asian American, and 7% "Other") were recruited from Denver, Colorado. In waves 1 (Mage = 2.45 years, SD = 0.26) and 2 (Mage = 3.51 years, SD = 0.26), parents and children discussed wordless images of children experiencing an emotion (e.g., sad after dropping ice cream). Children's emotion knowledge was assessed at waves 2 and 3 (Mage = 4.48 years, SD = 0.26). Structural equation modeling found concurrent and prospective relations between parents' questions, parents' emotion talk, children's emotion talk, and children's emotion knowledge, highlighting the multidimensional nature of early emotion socialization.
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