Understanding of Emotions and Empathy: Predictors of Positive Parenting with Preschoolers in Economically Stressed Families.
Objectives: This study investigated predictors of sensitive and responsive parenting of 3- to 5-year old children within the context of a small urban Head Start system, serving mostly African American and Latino families (N = 86 dyads; 91% African American). Methods: Mothers and their children parti...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 28; no. 5; pp. 1346 - 1359 |
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Springer Nature
May2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=135840869&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 135840869 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10621024 JFM jtl: Journal of Child & Family Studies issn: 10621024 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2019 vid: 28 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 135840869 10.1007/s10826-018-01303-6 ppf: 1346 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 778KB tig: atl: Understanding of Emotions and Empathy: Predictors of Positive Parenting with Preschoolers in Economically Stressed Families. aug: au: Krauthamer Ewing, E. Stephanie Herres, Joanna Dilks, Katherine E. Rahim, Forogh Trentacosta, Christopher J. affil: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, USA Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA su: Empathy Motherhood & psychology Child abuse Mother-child relationship Parenting Psychological stress Socioeconomic factors Emotions in children sug: subj: Empathy Motherhood & psychology Child abuse Mother-child relationship Parenting Psychological stress Socioeconomic factors Emotions in children keyword: Emotional intelligence Harsh parenting Sensitive parenting Emotional intelligence Harsh parenting Sensitive parenting ab: Objectives: This study investigated predictors of sensitive and responsive parenting of 3- to 5-year old children within the context of a small urban Head Start system, serving mostly African American and Latino families (N = 86 dyads; 91% African American). Methods: Mothers and their children participated in a brief sadness induction (viewing a video clip validated for sadness induction in children), and mothers were subsequently asked to engage their child in discussion about the video. Mother-child discussions were videotaped and parenting behaviors and maternal affect were coded by trained raters. Controlling for maternal verbal ability, maternal facilitative emotional intelligence (understanding the adaptive functions of emotions) and aspects of maternal empathy (self-focused vs other focused emotional resonance) were examined as predictors of observed parenting with children during the interaction task. Results: Higher levels of maternal facilitative emotional intelligence and lower levels of maternal empathic personal distress predicted sensitive and responsive parenting (maternal sensitivity; positive regard toward child), even after controlling for maternal verbal ability. Higher levels of maternal empathic personal distress predicted harsh and intrusive parenting (intrusive behaviors; expressions of anger and frustration). Conclusions: Results contribute to knowledge pertaining to predictors of parenting, particularly predictors of positive parenting. The results support the important and nuanced role of parental empathy in influencing parenting behaviors and point to facilitative emotional intelligence as an additional correlate of sensitive and responsive parenting. Measuring and investigating growth in parents' facilitative emotional intelligence and empathic distress tolerance could help inform innovative new approaches to studying change processes in various parenting support programs. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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