Dunsmore Julie C, Her Pa, Halberstadt Amy G, Perez-Rivera Marie B
Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech.
J Nonverbal Behav. 2009 Jun 1;33(2):121-140. doi: 10.1007/s10919-008-0066-6.
This study investigated parents' emotion-related beliefs, experience, and expression, and children's recognition of their parents' emotions with 40 parent-child dyads. Parents reported beliefs about danger and guidance of children's emotions. While viewing emotion-eliciting film clips, parents self-reported their emotional experience and masking of emotion. Children and observers rated videos of parents watching emotion-eliciting film clips. Fathers reported more masking than mothers and their emotional expressions were more difficult for both observers and children to recognize compared with mothers' emotional expressions. For fathers, but not mothers, showing clearer expressions was related to children's general skill at recognizing emotional expressions. Parents who believe emotions are dangerous reported greater masking of emotional expression. Contrary to hypothesis, when parents strongly believe in guiding their child's emotion socialization, children showed less accurate recognition of their parents' emotions.
本研究以40对亲子为样本,调查了父母与情绪相关的信念、经历和表达,以及孩子对父母情绪的识别。父母报告了关于孩子情绪的危险和引导的信念。在观看引发情绪的电影片段时,父母自我报告了他们的情绪体验和情绪掩饰情况。孩子和观察者对父母观看引发情绪的电影片段的视频进行了评分。父亲比母亲报告的情绪掩饰更多,与母亲的情绪表达相比,观察者和孩子更难识别父亲的情绪表达。对于父亲而非母亲来说,表现出更清晰的表情与孩子识别情绪表达的一般能力有关。认为情绪危险的父母报告了更多的情绪表达掩饰。与假设相反,当父母坚信要引导孩子的情绪社会化时,孩子对父母情绪的识别准确性较低。