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Parent‐child discussions of anger and sadness: The importance of parent and child gender during middle childhood
Author(s) -
Zeman Janice,
PerryParrish Carisa,
Cassano Michael
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.269
Subject(s) - sadness , anger , psychology , socialization , developmental psychology , middle class , context (archaeology) , social psychology , paleontology , political science , law , biology
This chapter provides conceptual background and empirical evidence that parental emotion socialization continues well into middle childhood and is influenced by the social context. Data are presented to illustrate the influence of parent and child gender on parental socialization of emotion in 113 Caucasian, middle‐class children. Mothers and fathers discussed historical sadness‐ and anger‐eliciting events with their sons and daughters. Fathers appear to play a unique role in sadness socialization whereas mothers' influence seems distinctive for the socialization of anger. Socialization of emotion is a transactional process in which parents and children are both socializing agents and emotion regulators. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc.