TY - JOUR
T1 - Physiology and functioning
T2 - Parents' vagal tone, emotion socialization, and children's emotion knowledge
AU - Perlman, Susan B.
AU - Camras, Linda A.
AU - Pelphrey, Kevin A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a Duke Interdisciplinary Initiative in Social Psychology (DIISP) grant provided through Duke University. We gratefully acknowledge the participation of the children and families who volunteered to be part of our study. We also thank Elizabeth Kauffman and the Duke psychology and neuroscience graduate students for their help in creating project stimuli, Susanne Denham for allowing us to use her emotion knowledge task, and Parul Kakar, Jenny Feldman, Blair Burke, Jennifer Smith, Citlaly Gonzalez, and Jorgianne Robinson for their help in testing participants and in data preparation and analysis.
PY - 2008/8
Y1 - 2008/8
N2 - This study examined relationships among parents' physiological regulation, their emotion socialization behaviors, and their children's emotion knowledge. Parents' resting cardiac vagal tone was measured, and parents provided information regarding their socialization behaviors and family emotional expressiveness. Their 4- or 5-year-old children (N = 42) participated in a laboratory session in which their knowledge of emotional facial expressions and situations was tested and their own resting vagal tone was monitored. Results showed that parents' vagal tone was related to their socialization behaviors, and several parent socialization variables were related to their children's emotion knowledge. These findings suggest that parents' physiological regulation may affect the emotional development of their children by influencing their parenting behaviors.
AB - This study examined relationships among parents' physiological regulation, their emotion socialization behaviors, and their children's emotion knowledge. Parents' resting cardiac vagal tone was measured, and parents provided information regarding their socialization behaviors and family emotional expressiveness. Their 4- or 5-year-old children (N = 42) participated in a laboratory session in which their knowledge of emotional facial expressions and situations was tested and their own resting vagal tone was monitored. Results showed that parents' vagal tone was related to their socialization behaviors, and several parent socialization variables were related to their children's emotion knowledge. These findings suggest that parents' physiological regulation may affect the emotional development of their children by influencing their parenting behaviors.
KW - Emotion knowledge
KW - Emotion socialization
KW - Emotional development
KW - Vagal tone
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=48949116070&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.03.007
DO - 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.03.007
M3 - Article
C2 - 18486947
AN - SCOPUS:48949116070
SN - 0022-0965
VL - 100
SP - 308
EP - 315
JO - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
IS - 4
ER -