Department of Psychology and Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, United States.
J Exp Child Psychol. 2012 Oct;113(2):211-32. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.04.001. Epub 2012 Jun 23.
Three studies assessed parent-child agreement in perceptions of children's everyday emotions in typically developing 4- to 11-year-old children. Study 1 (N=228) and Study 2 (N=195) focused on children's worry and anxiety. Study 3 (N=90) examined children's optimism. Despite child and parent reporters providing internally consistent responses, their perceptions about children's emotional wellbeing consistently failed to correlate. Parents significantly underestimated child worry and anxiety and overestimated optimism compared to child self-report (suggesting a parental positivity bias). Moreover, parents' self-reported emotions correlated with how they reported their children's emotions (suggesting an egocentric bias). These findings have implications for developmental researchers, clinicians, and parents.
三项研究评估了在典型发展的 4 至 11 岁儿童中，父母和孩子对孩子日常情绪的感知的一致性。研究 1（N=228）和研究 2（N=195）关注的是儿童的担忧和焦虑。研究 3（N=90）考察了儿童的乐观情绪。尽管儿童和父母报告者提供了内部一致的反应，但他们对儿童情绪健康的看法始终没有相关。与儿童自我报告相比，父母明显低估了孩子的担忧和焦虑，高估了孩子的乐观情绪（表明父母存在积极偏见）。此外，父母自我报告的情绪与他们报告孩子情绪的方式相关（表明存在自我中心偏见）。这些发现对发展研究人员、临床医生和家长都具有意义。
