scholarly journals The Role of Mothers' Parenting Attitudes and Child's Perceived Parenting Attitudes on Children's Emotion Recognition

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arzu Caliskan Sari ◽  
Basak Sahin Acar
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Parenting Attitudes ◽  
Perceived Parenting ◽  
Children's Emotion

Associations of child emotion recognition with interparental conflict and shy child temperament traits

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 1343-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice C. Schermerhorn
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Interparental Conflict ◽  
Severe Form ◽  
Early Adversity ◽  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
Children's Emotion ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Children’S Exposure ◽  
High Threat

Severe early adversity, such as maltreatment and neglect, has been associated with alterations in children’s recognition of emotion. We sought to build on such findings by testing whether children’s exposure to interparental conflict, a much less severe form of adversity, is also associated with children’s emotion recognition. Further, we sought to examine the role of temperamental shyness in these associations. We presented 99 9- to 11-year-olds (56 males) with photographs of actors posing as a couple portraying interpersonal anger, happiness, and neutrality, and children classified the emotions in the photos. Children reported on interparental conflict, and their mothers reported on children’s shyness. Children’s perceptions of threat regarding interparental conflict interacted with trial type (angry, happy, neutral) to predict accuracy; greater threat perceptions predicted less accuracy for neutral expressions, a relatively ambiguous stimulus type. Additionally, shyness interacted with children’s threat perceptions. At low levels of shyness, low levels of threat perceptions predicted high accuracy, whereas high threat, high shyness, and their combination predicted poorer accuracy. Results suggest the significance of interparental conflict in altering children’s emotion recognition and of shyness in strengthening such adaptations. These findings suggest that even forms of adversity that are less severe than maltreatment and neglect have substantial implications for emotion processing, particularly for children with shy traits.

scholarly journals Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences and Parenting Attitudes: the Role of Cumulative Protection in Understanding Resilience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Sheffield Morris ◽  
Jennifer Hays-Grudo ◽  
Martha Isabel Zapata ◽  
Amy Treat ◽  
Kara L. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Attitudes ◽  
Childhood Experiences
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