Abstract
Parents play an important role in socializing children's emotion understanding. Previous research on parents' conversations with their children shows that parents emphasize different aspects of emotion contexts depending on the emotion depicted. However, there is limited research on how parents and children discuss self-conscious emotions, such as embarrassment, guilt, and shame. The current study explored the socialization of self-conscious emotions in parent-child conversations during a storybook task. One hundred and sixty-six children between the ages of 24 and 36 months were observed reading a storybook with their parent. Analyses of parent-child conversations revealed that while parent and child utterances were highly correlated, only parents differentially discussed different aspects of each self-conscious emotion. Additionally, the frequency of parents' causality and knowledge-based questions directed towards their children differed by self-conscious emotion. Whether parent communication of emotion serves as a framework for child understanding and interpretation of self-conscious emotions will be discussed.
Degree
MS
College and Department
Family, Home, and Social Sciences; Family Life
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Cooper, Alexandra Marie, "Let's Talk! An Investigation of Parent-Child Conversations About Self-Conscious Emotions" (2021). Theses and Dissertations. 9455.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9455
Date Submitted
2021-03-26
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd12092
Keywords
self-conscious emotions, socialization, parent-child talk, relational aboutness, emotion understanding
Language
english