Low and Middle Income Mothers' Regulation of Negative Emotion: Effects of Children's Temperament and Situational Emotional Responses

Autor/inn/en	Martini, Tanya S.; Root, Carol A.; Jenkins, Jennifer M.
Titel	Low and Middle Income Mothers' Regulation of Negative Emotion: Effects of Children's Temperament and Situational Emotional Responses
Quelle	In: Social Development, 13 (2004) 4, S.515-530 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9507.2004.00281.x
Schlagwörter	Low Income Groups; Middle Class; Emotional Response; Personality Traits; Psychological Patterns; Mothers; Predictor Variables; Socioeconomic Status; Socioeconomic Influences; Fear; Young Children; Parent Child Relationship; Emotional Problems; Self Control; Parenting Styles + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mittelschicht; Emotionales Verhalten; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Mother; Mutter; Prädiktor; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Furcht; Frühe Kindheit; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Selbstbeherrschung
Abstract	The present study investigated the effects of situational (child situational emotions) and dispositional (child temperament) child variables on mothers' regulation of their own hostile (anger) and nonhostile (sadness and anxiety) emotions. Participants included 94 low and middle income mothers and their children (41 girls; 53 boys) aged 3 to 6 years. Children's situational emotions (anger, sadness, or fear) and parent emotion type (hostile or nonhostile) were important predictors of mothers' regulation, but their effects were influenced by SES: Middle income mothers were more likely to control hostile than nonhostile emotions in response to child anger and sadness, and more likely than low income mothers to control hostile emotions in response to child sadness and fear. Low income mothers were more likely than middle income mothers to control nonhostile emotions in response to child anger. However, results also suggest that differences in emotion regulation between low and middle income mothers may stem from the link between SES and authoritarian parenting beliefs. Maternal regulation of negative emotion was not predicted by child temperament. (As Provided).
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