Family Functioning, Emotion Socialization, and Children's Social Competence: Gender-Specific Effects in Chinese Families.
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 exp...
| Published in: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 257 - 272 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=161550542&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 161550542 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: Jan2023 vid: 32 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 161550542 10.1007/s10826-022-02480-1 ppf: 257 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1MB tig: atl: Family Functioning, Emotion Socialization, and Children's Social Competence: Gender-Specific Effects in Chinese Families. aug: au: Zhu, Danhua Chen, Yinghe Li, Longfeng Dunsmore, Julie C. affil: Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA Department of Psychological, Health, & Learning Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA su: China Socialization Social support Parenting Behavior disorders in children Sex distribution Family relations Emotions Parent-child relationships Social skills Children Structural equation modeling Risk assessment Questionnaires sug: subj: Socialization Social support Parenting Behavior disorders in children Sex distribution Family relations Emotions Parent-child relationships Social skills Children China Other Individual and Family Services Structural equation modeling Risk assessment Questionnaires keyword: Chinese families Family functioning Parental emotion socialization Problem behavior Prosocial behavior Chinese families Family functioning Parental emotion socialization Problem behavior Prosocial behavior ab: 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. Highlights: Emotion socialization occurs within the family context, thus family functioning may relate to emotion socialization. In contemporary Chinese families, both fathers and mothers invest time and energy in childrearing. Family functioning related to children's social competence directly and indirectly through parents' emotion socialization. Findings showed varying relations of emotion socialization with child behaviors according to child gender. Culture-specific gendered expectations for children's socio-emotional behavior and family roles may shape socialization. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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