Mothers' Expressive Style and Emotional Responses to Children's Behavior Predict Children's Prosocial and Achievement-Related Self-Ratings

Autor/inn/en	Dunsmore, Julie C.; Bradburn, Isabel S.; Costanzo, Philip R.; Fredrickson, Barbara L.
Titel	Mothers' Expressive Style and Emotional Responses to Children's Behavior Predict Children's Prosocial and Achievement-Related Self-Ratings
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33 (2009) 3, S.253-264 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025408098025
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Antisocial Behavior; Emotional Response; Parent Child Relationship; Prosocial Behavior; Child Behavior; Academic Achievement; Parent Attitudes; Correlation; Self Concept; Psychological Patterns; Parent Influence; Negative Attitudes; Socialization; Gender Differences; Age Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Emotionales Verhalten; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Schulleistung; Elternverhalten; Korrelation; Selbstkonzept; Negative Fixierung; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	In this study we investigated whether mothers' typical expressive style and specific emotional responses to children's behaviors are linked to children's prosocial and competence self-ratings. Eight- to 12-year-old children and their mothers rated how mothers had felt when children behaved prosocially and antisocially, achieved and failed to achieve. Children rated self-descriptiveness of prosocial and achievement-related traits. Mothers' positive expressiveness was associated with children's higher achievement-related self-ratings. Mothers' positive- and negative-dominant expressiveness was associated with children's lower prosocial self-ratings. Mothers' happiness about both children's prosocial and achievement-related behavior was associated with children's higher self-ratings for both domains. Mothers' anger about children's antisocial behavior was related to children's lower self-ratings for both domains. When mothers were higher in negative-submissive expressiveness, and responded with more sadness to children's failure to achieve, children reported lower achievement self-ratings. Results support the importance of multidimensional assessment of self-concept and suggest that parents' typical expressive style moderates the influence of parents' specific emotional responses on children's self-ratings. (Contains 1 table, 2 figures, and 4 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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