Maternal Emotion Socialization Trajectories in an Early-Childhood, Predominantly White Sample.
Several developmental theories identify caregiver emotion socialization (ES) as predicting multiple child psychological outcomes, including anxiety. The present study delineated developmental trajectories of mothers' ES practices, specifically the initial levels and growth across time of their suppo...
| Publicado en: | Developmental Psychology Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 649 - 665 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=183942600&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 183942600 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00121649 DPS jtl: Developmental Psychology issn: 00121649 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2025 vid: 61 iid: 4 pid: 34 pub: American Psychological Association artinfo: ui: 183942600 10.1037/dev0001792 ppf: 649 ppct: 16 formats: tig: atl: Maternal Emotion Socialization Trajectories in an Early-Childhood, Predominantly White Sample. aug: au: Price, Natalee N. Kiel, Elizabeth J. affil: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Community Behavioral Health, University of New Mexico Department of Psychology, Miami University su: Sadness Anger Emotions Anxiety White people Parenting Developmental psychology Psychology of mothers Child development Psychology of caregivers Mother-child relationship Social support Child psychology Motherhood Socialization Children Risk assessment Emotion regulation Research funding Worry Human growth Research sug: subj: Sadness Anger Emotions Anxiety White people Parenting Developmental psychology Psychology of mothers Child development Psychology of caregivers Mother-child relationship Social support Child psychology Motherhood Socialization Children Other Individual and Family Services Risk assessment Emotion regulation Research funding Worry Human growth Research keyword: developmental trajectory discrete emotion emotion dysregulation emotion socialization latent growth curve models developmental trajectory discrete emotion emotion dysregulation emotion socialization latent growth curve models ab: Several developmental theories identify caregiver emotion socialization (ES) as predicting multiple child psychological outcomes, including anxiety. The present study delineated developmental trajectories of mothers' ES practices, specifically the initial levels and growth across time of their supportive and nonsupportive responses to their young children's emotions. To contextualize the developmental role of these processes, we examined multiple predictors (i.e., maternal emotion dysregulation, child negative emotionality, demographic covariates) and one outcome (i.e., child anxiety) of ES trajectories, as well as how trajectories varied by emotion type—sadness, anger, or worry. We investigated these questions in a community sample of 173 predominantly White, non-Hispanic mother–child dyads who participated at four time points when children were aged 2–5 years, with assessments 1 year apart. Mothers reported on study variables. Results varied by ES type. Mothers' supportive global and emotion-specific ES were highly stable across time and did not relate to predictors, outcomes, or demographic covariates. Mothers endorsed gradual decreases in nonsupportive ES across time, with some variations across emotion type. Nonsupportive responses to worry and sadness each comprised two classes varying by intercept and slope. Nonsupportive worry responses linearly decreased, whereas nonsupportive sadness responses linearly increased. Across global and emotion-specific models, maternal emotion dysregulation, child negative emotionality, and demographic covariates showed unique relations with nonsupportive ES intercept and slope. Trajectories were mostly unrelated to later child anxiety, with the exception of class-specific differences for nonsupportive worry responses. Implications and future directions are discussed. Public Significance Statement: The ways that mothers supportively respond to their young children's emotions are relatively consistent across time and context, whereas their nonsupportive responses do change across child development and different contexts, including type of emotion, and emotion-related characteristics of child and mother. Changes in mothers' responses to emotions across early childhood are mostly unrelated to child anxiety risk. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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