National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US.
Transcult Psychiatry. 2020 Jun;57(3):408-420. doi: 10.1177/1363461520905997. Epub 2020 Feb 25.
This study examined the relations between maternal reactions to children's negative emotions and children's socio-emotional outcomes, including psychological adjustment, emotion knowledge, and coping strategies. European American and Chinese immigrant mothers reported on their reactions to children's ( = 117, = 7.14 years) negative emotions and on children's psychological adjustment. One year later, children were interviewed for emotion knowledge and mothers reported on children's use of coping strategies. Mothers from the two cultural groups reported the same level of supportive reactions to their children's negative emotions, whereas Chinese immigrant mothers more often adopted what are commonly considered to be non-supportive strategies than did European American mothers. Whereas supportive maternal reactions were associated with better child outcomes in both cultures, maternal non-supportive reactions were negatively associated with children's functioning for European American children but not for Chinese immigrant children. The findings shed critical light on the functional meaning of parenting practices in specific cultural contexts in shaping developmental outcomes.
本研究考察了母亲对孩子负面情绪的反应与孩子社会情感结果之间的关系，包括心理适应、情绪知识和应对策略。欧洲裔美国和中国移民母亲报告了她们对孩子（n=117，年龄=7.14 岁）负面情绪的反应以及孩子的心理适应情况。一年后，对孩子们进行了情绪知识访谈，母亲们报告了孩子们使用应对策略的情况。来自这两个文化群体的母亲对孩子的负面情绪都表现出了相同水平的支持性反应，然而，与欧洲裔美国母亲相比，中国移民母亲更常采用通常被认为是不支持的策略。在这两种文化中，支持性的母亲反应与更好的孩子结果相关，而母亲的不支持性反应与欧洲裔美国孩子的功能相关，但与中国移民孩子的功能不相关。这些发现为特定文化背景下养育实践在塑造发展结果方面的功能意义提供了重要的启示。
