{"title":"Mothers' Emotional Expressiveness and Preschoolers' Social Skills: The Roles of Emotional Display Rules and Gender.","authors":"Pamela W Garner, Hideko H Bassett, Julia M Shadur","doi":"10.1080/00221325.2025.2559757","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study evaluated whether children's emotional display rule behavior and gender moderated associations between mothers' affective balance and preschoolers' (46 boys, 44 girls) social initiations and prosocial behavior, which were assessed using semi-naturalistic observational methods. Seventy-three of the dyads were White and 17 were Asian. The association between mothers' affective balance and prosocial behavior was positive for children high in emotional display rule behavior and negative for children who were low in this behavior. Associations between mothers' affective balance and social initiations and prosocial behavior were negative, but only for boys. In contrast, the relation between mothers' affective balance and prosocial behavior was positive for girls. Findings can inform parent and child-focused interventions targeting parental socialization of emotion and its role in young children's peer competence.</p>","PeriodicalId":54827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genetic Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Genetic Psychology","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2025.2559757","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study evaluated whether children's emotional display rule behavior and gender moderated associations between mothers' affective balance and preschoolers' (46 boys, 44 girls) social initiations and prosocial behavior, which were assessed using semi-naturalistic observational methods. Seventy-three of the dyads were White and 17 were Asian. The association between mothers' affective balance and prosocial behavior was positive for children high in emotional display rule behavior and negative for children who were low in this behavior. Associations between mothers' affective balance and social initiations and prosocial behavior were negative, but only for boys. In contrast, the relation between mothers' affective balance and prosocial behavior was positive for girls. Findings can inform parent and child-focused interventions targeting parental socialization of emotion and its role in young children's peer competence.
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The Journal of Genetic Psychology is devoted to research and theory in the field of developmental psychology. It encompasses a life-span approach, so in addition to manuscripts devoted to infancy, childhood, and adolescence, articles on adulthood and aging are also published. We accept submissions in the area of educational psychology as long as they are developmental in nature. Submissions in cross cultural psychology are accepted, but they must add to our understanding of human development in a comparative global context. Applied, descriptive, and qualitative articles are occasionally accepted, as are replications and refinements submitted as brief reports. The review process for all submissions to The Journal of Genetic Psychology consists of double blind review.