Emotion Socialization, Emotional Competence, and Social Competence and Maladjustment in Early Childhood

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year

2010

Author dc:creator

• Mirabile, Scott Paul

Contributors dc:contributor

• Scaramella, Laura
• Laird, Robert
• Weems, Carl

• Emotion socialization
• emotional competence
• emotion expression
• emotion regulation
• emotion understanding
• measure contamination
• preschoolers
• social competence
• maladjustment

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1159

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2142