Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China.
Department of Applied Psychology, College of Public Administration, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
Dev Psychopathol. 2023 Aug;35(3):1130-1146. doi: 10.1017/S095457942100105X. Epub 2021 Nov 12.
This research aims to investigate the salience of mothers' emotional expressivity and its links with adolescents' emotional wellbeing and expressivity in an urban society endorsing more individualism and a rural society ascribing to more collectivism. By comparing Chinese urban ( = 283, = 14.13) and rural ( = 247, = 14.09) adolescents, this research found that urban mothers' expression of positive-dominant and positive-submissive emotions (PD and PS) were more common while expression of negative-dominant (ND) emotions was less common than rural mothers'. PD and PS had significant links with urban and rural adolescents' increased emotional expressivity and self-esteem, however, only significantly related to urban adolescents' decreased depression but not with rural adolescents'. ND had significant links with both urban and rural adolescents' expression of negative emotions, however, only significantly correlated with urban adolescents' less level of self-esteem and rural adolescents' more expression of positive emotions. No significant difference was found in the salience of urban and rural mothers' expression of negative-submissive (NS) emotions, which positively related to both urban and rural adolescents' depression and emotional expressivity. Moreover, we found that adolescents' emotional wellbeing (i.e., self-esteem and depression) mediated the relationship between mothers' emotional expressivity and adolescents' expressivity in both societies. Overall, the study findings document that the salience of mothers' emotional expressivity and its relations with adolescents' emotional adjustment differ between urban and rural societies.
本研究旨在探讨母亲情绪表达的显著性及其与城市社会（更强调个人主义）和农村社会（更强调集体主义）中青少年情绪幸福感和表达性的关系。通过比较中国城市（n=283，M=14.13）和农村（n=247，M=14.09）青少年，本研究发现城市母亲表达积极主导（PD）和积极顺从（PS）情绪比农村母亲更常见，而表达消极主导（ND）情绪则较少。PD 和 PS 与城市和农村青少年情绪表达性和自尊心的增强显著相关，但仅与城市青少年的抑郁减少显著相关，而与农村青少年无关。ND 与城市和农村青少年表达消极情绪显著相关，但仅与城市青少年自尊心降低和农村青少年表达积极情绪增多显著相关。城市和农村母亲表达消极顺从（NS）情绪的显著性没有差异，NS 情绪与城市和农村青少年的抑郁和情绪表达性呈正相关。此外，我们发现青少年的情绪幸福感（即自尊心和抑郁）在两种社会中都中介了母亲情绪表达与青少年情绪表达之间的关系。总的来说，研究结果表明，母亲情绪表达的显著性及其与青少年情绪适应的关系在城市和农村社会之间存在差异。
