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- Title
Family emotion expressivity, emotion regulation, and the link to psychopathology: Examination across race.
- Authors
Morelen, Diana; Jacob, Marni L.; Suveg, Cynthia; Jones, Anna; Thomassin, Kristel
- Abstract
Research has established links between parental emotion socialization behaviours and youth emotional and psychological outcomes; however, no study has simultaneously compared these relations for White, Black, and Asian individuals. In this study, emerging adults identifying as White ( n= 61), Black ( n= 51), or Asian ( n= 56) retrospectively reported on parents' emotion socialization behaviours during childhood, existing emotion regulation (ER) skills, and current psychopathology symptoms. Asian participants reported fewer positive displays of emotions in their families during childhood than White and Black participants. Despite this difference, low expression of positive emotions in families during childhood did not relate to negative outcomes for Asian participants but was linked for White and Black participants. Overall, Asian participants reported more difficulties with ER than Black or White participants, and relations between ER difficulties and psychopathology varied by racial group. The findings emphasize the need to consider race when conducting research on emotion functioning with families and highlight emotion dysregulation as a potential treatment target for White, Black, and Asian individuals.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of variance; ASIANS; BLACK people; COLLEGE students; EMOTIONS; MULTIVARIATE analysis; PROBABILITY theory; APPLIED psychology; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL sampling; SCALES (Weighing instruments); WHITE people; FAMILY relations; MULTIPLE regression analysis; EFFECT sizes (Statistics); RETROSPECTIVE studies; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
British Journal of Psychology, 2013, Vol 104, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0007-1269
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.2044-8295.2012.02108.x