The Role of Child Emotional Responsiveness and Maternal Negative Emotion Expression in Children's Coping Strategy Use

Autor/inn/en	Goodvin, Rebecca; Carlo, Gustavo; Torquati, Julia
Titel	The Role of Child Emotional Responsiveness and Maternal Negative Emotion Expression in Children's Coping Strategy Use
Quelle	In: Social Development, 15 (2006) 4, S.591-611 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9507.2006.00359.x
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Emotional Response; Coping; Parent Child Relationship; Role; Mother Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Empathy; Correlation; Social Support Groups; Aggression; Emotional Disturbances; Stress Variables; Social Development; Emotional Development; Interpersonal Competence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Emotionales Verhalten; Bewältigung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Rollen; Mutterliebe; Lehrerverhalten; Empathie; Korrelation; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Gefühlsstörung; Soziale Entwicklung; Gefühlsbildung; Interpersonale Kompetenz
Abstract	This study examined the additive and interactive effects of children's trait vicarious emotional responsiveness and maternal negative emotion expression on children's use of coping strategies. Ninety-five children (mean age = 5.87 years) and their mothers and teachers participated in the study. The mothers reported on their own negative emotion expression and the children's empathic concern and personal distress tendencies. The mothers and teachers reported on the children's use of avoidant, support-seeking, and aggressive-venting coping strategies. Empathic concern was positively associated with the children's use of support seeking and negatively associated with the children's use of aggressive venting, whereas personal distress showed the opposite pattern of associations. Maternal negative emotion expression moderated some associations between the children's emotional responsiveness and coping. These findings support the hypothesis that children's tendencies to experience empathic concern or personal distress indicate functionally distinct styles of emotional arousal that may have broader consequences for socially competent behavior in response to normative stressors. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10