Linguistic Analysis of Parent Emotion Beliefs: Longitudinal Links to Child, Parent, & Family Functioning
Year: 2021
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The objectives of the present study were to explore parents’ emotion beliefs using a linguistic framework and apply said framework to predict child and parent emotion regulation and family emotion expressiveness. Participants included 102 parents of children ages 8 through 12 who participated in focus groups on emotion beliefs. Parents completed questionnaires one year later that assessed emotion functioning at the child, parent, and family level. Focus group transcripts were analyzed for proportion of first- and third-person pronouns, cognitive, and emotion word categories, as well as a linguistic marker of psychological distancing. Analyses revealed that fathers engaged in greater linguistic distancing than mothers, and that proportion of parental emotion word use was negatively predictive of child emotion regulation at follow-up. No other linguistic variables predicted emotion outcomes. The present research furthers understanding of the relations between parental communication patterns about their child’s emotions and child and family well-being.
Author: Chelsea Reaume
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3193742219