Emotion Talk in Mother-Child Conversations of the Shared Past: The Effects of Culture, Gender, and Event Valence

Autor/inn/en	Fivush, Robyn; Wang, Qi
Titel	Emotion Talk in Mother-Child Conversations of the Shared Past: The Effects of Culture, Gender, and Event Valence
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 6 (2005) 4, S.489-506 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
Schlagwörter	Middle Class; Mothers; Preschool Children; Cultural Influences; Gender Differences; Cognitive Processes; Whites; Cultural Differences; Asian Culture; Negative Attitudes; Emotional Response; Parent Child Relationship; Foreign Countries; Interpersonal Communication; Memory; Recall (Psychology); China; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mittelschicht; Mother; Mutter; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Geschlechterkonflikt; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; White; Weißer; Kultureller Unterschied; Negative Fixierung; Emotionales Verhalten; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ausland; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Gedächtnis; Abberufung; USA
Abstract	We examined how mother-child emotional reminiscing is affected by culture, gender, and the valence of the event. Thirty-one Euro-American and 30 Chinese middle-class mothers and their 3-year-old children discussed 1 highly positive and 1 highly negative experience. Mothers and children in both cultures used a greater variety of negative emotion words than positive emotion words and were more likely to confirm a shared emotional perspective when discussing the positive event but to negotiate emotion when discussing the negative event. Moreover, Chinese dyads used more negative emotion words overall than did Euro-American dyads but Euro-American dyads engaged in more negotiations of emotion than did Chinese dyads. Surprisingly, there were no effects of gender. Implications of these findings for emotional socialization are discussed. (Contains 4 tables and 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10