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- Title
Influence of Gender on Parental Socialization of Children's Sadness Regulation.
- Authors
Cassano, Michael; Perry‐Parrish, Carisa; Zeman, Janice
- Abstract
Mothers' (N = 60) and fathers' (N = 53) perceptions of and desire for change in their 6- to 11-year-old daughters' (N = 59) and sons' (N = 54) sadness regulation behaviors (i.e., inhibition, dysregulation, coping) were examined in addition to parental responses to children's hypothetical sadness displays. Results of multivariate analyses of variance and regression analyses suggest that parental perceptions of and desired change in children's sadness behavior differ as a function of parent gender, child gender and child age (younger (grades 1, 2), older (grades 4, 5)), and predict the likelihood of contingent responses to children's sadness behavior. Overall, fathers reported being likely to respond to sadness with minimization whereas mothers reported being likely to respond with expressive encouragement and problem-focused strategies. These parent-reported socialization response tendencies, however, were more fully explained by the interaction between perceptions of children's sadness regulation behaviors and satisfaction with these behaviors. These findings highlight the need to include parent gender and parental cognitions as important variables in emotion socialization research.
- Subjects
SADNESS in children; SADNESS; FATHER-child relationship; MOTHER-child relationship; PARENTAL influences; CHILD psychology research; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Social Development, 2007, Vol 16, Issue 2, p210
- ISSN
0961-205X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00381.x