Date of Award
5-2010
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Program
Applied Developmental Psychology
Department
Psychology
Major Professor
Scaramella, Laura
Second Advisor
Laird, Robert
Third Advisor
Weems, Carl
Fourth Advisor
Martel, Michelle M.
Fifth Advisor
Frick, Paul J.
Abstract
In this study of preschool children and parents (N=64), we examined relations between two facets of parents' emotion socialization: direct and indirect socialization; three facets of children's emotional competence: emotion expression, regulation, and understanding; and their relations with children's social and emotional adjustment. Few associations were observed between indicators of parents' emotion socialization and among indicators of children's emotional competence, suggesting that these constructs are better understood as multi-faceted, rather than unitary processes. Additionally, aspects of children's emotional competence linked--both directly and indirectly--parents' emotion socialization behaviors and children's social and emotional adjustment. Results are discussed with regard to the role of parents' emotion socialization and children's emotional competence, especially emotion regulation, in children's adjustment during preschool.
Recommended Citation
Mirabile, Scott Paul, "Emotion Socialization, Emotional Competence, and Social Competence and Maladjustment in Early Childhood" (2010). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1159.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1159
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