Children's Expression and Control of Emotion-Related Behavior: Developmental and Gender Influences on Children's and Parents' Perceptions.

Autor/inn/en	Dorr, Aimee; und weitere
Titel	Children's Expression and Control of Emotion-Related Behavior: Developmental and Gender Influences on Children's and Parents' Perceptions.
Quelle	(1995), (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Affective Behavior; Age Differences; Behavior Patterns; Behavior Standards; Childhood Attitudes; Children; Developmental Stages; Emotional Adjustment; Emotional Development; Ethnic Groups; Parent Attitudes; Sex Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Child; Kind; Kinder; Emotionale Anpassung; Gefühlsbildung; Ethnie; Elternverhalten; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied
Abstract	This study examined the developmental and gender influences on children's normative emotional expression and control. The study surveyed 307 pairs of middle-class European-American children who were 7, 11, and 15 years old, and one parent of each child. The results of the survey showed that children were closer to the norm in their expressive behavior than in their control behavior. There was little age change in girls' normative expression and control and in boys' normative control. As for gender difference, the study notes that boys declined with age in normative expression, presumably because the expression items involved emotions such as fear, sadness, and joy, whose expression males are expected to inhibit as they mature. From a perspective of parents, the results showed that mothers and fathers agreed about children's normative emotional control, but that mothers presented more normative emotional expression. (Contains 56 references.) (AP)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC