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Research article summary:
Functions of parent-child reminiscing about emotionally negative events.
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Parent-child reminiscing about negative experiences influences childrens developing 'emotional self-concept', which comprises three interrelated functions: self-defining (this is the kind of emotional person I am), self-in-relation (this is how I express ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2003Mar
in Journal: Memory
(Language : eng)
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1. Memory.
2003 Mar;11(2):179-92
Functions of parent-child reminiscing about emotionally negative events.
Fivush R, Berlin LJ, Sales JM, Mennuti-Washburn J, Cassidy J
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. psyrf@emory.edu
Parent-child reminiscing about negative experiences influences children's developing "emotional self-concept", which comprises three interrelated functions: self-defining (this is the kind of emotional person I am), self-in-relation (this is how I express and share my emotions with others), and coping (this is how I cope with and resolve negative emotion). In this study, we examined how 70 mostly white, middle-class mothers discuss three negative experiences (fear, anger, and sadness) with their 4-year-old children. Conversations about fear elaborate on the facts of the event and emotional resolutions, thus focusing on coping. Conversations about sadness contain evaluative feedback and emotional resolutions, thus focusing on self-in-relation and coping. Finally, conversations about anger highlight the emotional state itself, thus focusing on self-definition. Mothers are also more elaborative and more evaluative with daughters than with sons, and place emotional events in a more interpersonal context with daughters than sons. Thus girls may be forming a more elaborated and more interpersonal emotional self-concept than boys.
PMID : 12820830 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| Robyn | Fivush | R |
| Lisa J | Berlin | LJ |
| Jessica McDermott | Sales | JM |
| Jean | Mennuti-Washburn | J |
| Jude | Cassidy | J |
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. psyrf@emory.edu
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Category links from this article:- Adaptation, Psychological
- Adult
- Anger
- Child Development
- Child, Preschool
- Emotions
- Fear - psychology
- Feedback, Psychological
- Female
- Happiness
- Humans
- Male
- Memory
- Mother-Child Relations
- Self Concept
- Sex Factors
- Speech
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