Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Parents’ emotion socialization behaviors in response to preschool-aged children’s justified and unjustified negative emotions
Originally published 2023-04-19 · PLOS ONE
PLOS · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0283689 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Respect
Do I respond differently when I think my child’s feelings are unjustified?
The study investigates a common respect challenge: whether a parent’s judgment that an emotion is unreasonable changes how the child is treated.
Who was studied?
234 mothers and fathers of 146 children
Age / stage: Preschool children
Read with three questions
- How did parents’ feelings differ when they judged a child’s emotion justified or unjustified?
- Which feelings were associated with process-oriented versus outcome-oriented responses?
- Why can the data not show which feeling or behavior came first?
Keep the limits in view
The measures were cross-sectional, self-reported and drawn from one instrument. Parents may judge justifiability differently; directionality and universal standards were not established.
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Lauren G. Bailes; Garrett Ennis; Sarah M. Lempres; David A. Cole; Kathryn L. Humphreys (2023). Parents’ emotion socialization behaviors in response to preschool-aged children’s justified and unjustified negative emotions PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283689
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