An Empirical Test of the Model of Socialization of Emotion: Maternal and Child Contributors to Preschoolers' Emotion Knowledge and Adjustment

Autor/inn/en	Thompson, Stephanie F.; Zalewski, Maureen; Kiff, Cara J.; Moran, Lyndsey; Cortes, Rebecca; Lengua, Liliana J.
Titel	An Empirical Test of the Model of Socialization of Emotion: Maternal and Child Contributors to Preschoolers' Emotion Knowledge and Adjustment
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 56 (2020) 3, S.418-430 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Thompson, Stephanie F.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000860
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Socialization; Predictor Variables; Parenting Styles; Parent Child Relationship; Metacognition; Mothers; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Depression (Psychology); Emotional Adjustment; Interpersonal Competence; Affective Behavior; Heuristics; Self Control; Executive Function; Models; Mother Attitudes; Gender Differences; Social Skills Rating System + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Prädiktor; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Mother; Mutter; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Emotionale Anpassung; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Heuristik; Selbstbeherrschung; Analogiemodell; Mutterliebe; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	This study tested child characteristics (temperamental executive control and negative reactivity) and maternal characteristics (parenting behaviors and maternal depressive symptoms) as predictors of a mother's emotion-related socialization behaviors (ERSBs). Further, parenting behaviors and ERSBs were examined as predictors of children's emotion knowledge, social competence, and adjustment problems. ERSBs and children's emotion knowledge were tested as mediators of the effects of child and parent characteristics on adjustment. A community sample (N = 306) of mothers and children (36-40 months at T1) were assessed 4 times, once every 9 months, and assessments included maternal reports of depressive symptoms, observed temperament, observational ratings of general parenting at T1, maternal report of ERSBs at T1 & T2, behavioral measures of emotion knowledge at T3, and teacher ratings of children's adjustment at T4. There were no predictors of ERSBs above prior levels. Higher executive control and lower maternal depressive symptoms predicted greater child emotion knowledge, highlighting the roles of maternal and child contributors to emotion knowledge. Greater emotion knowledge and positive affective quality in parenting predicted children's adjustment, with emotion knowledge mediating the effects of executive control on children's adjustment. In addition, lower levels of maternal supportive ERSBs predicted greater adjustment problems. This study highlights the roles of key variables in Eisenberg, Cumberland, and Spinrad's (1998) heuristic model of emotion socialization and the importance of emotion socialization and emotion knowledge in children's adjustment. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01