Family Emotional Climate, Attachment Security and Young Children's Emotion Knowledge in a High Risk Sample

Autor/inn/en	Raikes, H. Abigail; Thompson, Ross A.
Titel	Family Emotional Climate, Attachment Security and Young Children's Emotion Knowledge in a High Risk Sample
Quelle	In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24 (2006) 1, S.89-104 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0261-510X
DOI	10.1348/026151005X70427
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Preschool Children; Attachment Behavior; Depression (Psychology); Parent Child Relationship; Family Environment; Emotional Development; At Risk Persons; Low Income Groups; Parent Influence; Longitudinal Studies; Predictor Variables; Age Differences; Developmental Psychology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Familienmilieu; Gefühlsbildung; Risikogruppe; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Prädiktor; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Entwicklungspsychologie
Abstract	Despite its prevalence in low-income populations, there has been little attention paid to how maternal depression influences mother-child conversations about emotions and low-income preschool children's developing emotion understanding. The importance of a secure attachment as a positive influence on emotion understanding has also been infrequently studied in lower-income families. This longitudinal study examined attachment security and maternal depression when children were age 2 as predictors of mother-child references to emotion in conversations, and children's emotion understanding when children were three. Maternal depression at age 2, but not at age 3, showed a direct, negative relation to children's emotion understanding at age 3, independent of mother-child references to emotion and attachment security. More securely attached dyads made more references to emotion in conversation, which, in turn, promoted children's emotion understanding. It was concluded that secure attachment relationships support children's emotion understanding by promoting mother-child discussion of emotions, while emotion understanding in preschoolers is directly impaired by maternal depression. (As Provided).
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