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Paternal Emotion Socialization: A Naturalistic Study

Gerhardt, Micah
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1467993092

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2016, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Human Development and Family Science.
Children’s higher levels of emotion regulation and socioemotional development have been related to positive outcomes in school, work, peer relations, and general mental and physical health. This study examines emotion expression and emotion coaching practices by fathers and mothers of young children and the role they play in children’s development of emotion related skills. The study used two time points of longitudinal data, collected annually, to examine children’s development of emotion regulation skills. At each time point, children and their mothers came for a lab visit and completed an audio recording at home on a typical weekend day. Lab data were later micro-coded for affect expression; audio recordings were coded for emotion expression and emotion socialization practices. The relations of father’s and mother’s emotion expression and emotion coaching behaviors with child emotion regulation were examined. In addition, moderation of maternal depression’s deleterious relation with children’s emotion regulation ability by fathers’ emotion related parenting practices was examined. It was found that father positive mood was positively associated with child positive mood, and mother positive mood was negatively associated with child negative mood at home. Father emotion coaching at time 1 was able to predict child positive expression in response to a clean-up task at time 2. This research has far reaching implications as depression, particularly among females, has a relatively high incidence rate (about 1 in 5). Poor child emotion regulation has been implicated in lifelong deficits in socioemotional functioning and better understanding the acquisition of these skills will enhance our ability to teach children these necessary skills.
Xin Feng, PhD (Advisor)
Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, PhD (Committee Member)
78 p.
Families and Family Life
Fathers, Emotion Socialization, Emotion Expression, Naturalistic Observation

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  • Gerhardt, M. (2016). Paternal Emotion Socialization: A Naturalistic Study [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1467993092

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gerhardt, Micah. Paternal Emotion Socialization: A Naturalistic Study . 2016. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1467993092.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gerhardt, Micah. "Paternal Emotion Socialization: A Naturalistic Study ." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1467993092

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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