Parenting style as a context for emotion socialization

Parenting style as a context for emotion socialization

• Chan, Siu Mui Dept. of Education Psychology, Counseling and Learning Needs, Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Bowes, Jennifer Institute of Early Childhood, and Children and Families Research Centre, Macquarie University
• Wyver, Shirley Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University

Early Education & Development, 20(4), 631-656, 2009

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

2009

• A Human Growth & Development
  • AF Family & Development, Family Relationship, Reproduction & Child Rearing, Family Education, Parental Involvement

Parenting Child Rearing Parent & Child Emotions Socialization Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to examine parenting style in the domain of emotion socialization through studying the relationships among parenting styles, emotion-related parental practices, and parental goals of Hong Kong-Chinese mothers. Data were collected from 189 Hong Kong-Chinese mothers of 6- to 8-year-old children. Hong Kong-Chinese mothers reported that among authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive parenting styles, they adopted an authoritative style most often and an authoritarian style least often. They valued both relational and individualistic emotional competence of their children as parental goals but regarded the former as more important than the latter. Structural equation modeling results indicated that parental goals mediated the influences of parenting styles on parental practices. Authoritative mothers who held individualistic emotional competence goals adopted different parental practices (a coaching or an emotion-encouraging approach) from those who held relational emotional competence goals. When mothers adopted authoritarian parenting and endorsed relational emotional competence as a parental goal, they responded to children's expression of emotions in a dismissing way.
Practice or Policy: Parenting styles play an overarching role in emotion socialization, influencing both parental practices and goals. The results imply that school personnel, counselors, or social workers should take into account parenting styles, parental goals, and cultural values of participants when they offer training programs to parents.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 10409289
• 15566935

• 10.1080/10409280802541973

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2010-11-28