Parental Socialization of Emotion Expression: Gender Differences and Relations to Child Adjustment.
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Emotion
- Vol. 5 (1), 80-88
- https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.5.1.80
Abstract
The present study examined gender differences in children's submissive and disharmonious emotions and parental attention to these emotions. Sixty children and their mothers and fathers participated when children were 4 and 6 years old. Children's emotion expression and parental responses during a game were coded. Girls expressed more submissive emotion than boys. Fathers attended more to girls' submissive emotion than to boys' at preschool age. Fathers attended more to boys' disharmonious emotion than to girls' at early school age. Parental attention at preschool age predicted later submissive expression level. Child disharmonious emotion predicted later externalizing symptoms. Gender differences in these emotions may occur as early as preschool age and may be subject to differential responding, particularly by fathers.Keywords
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