Sadri Amanda, Yates Tuppett M
Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside.
Dev Psychol. 2025 Apr;61(4):665-678. doi: 10.1037/dev0001859. Epub 2024 Oct 31.
Children's emotion knowledge encompasses abilities to recognize and label emotions in the service of positive adaptation. Drawing on a sociodemographically diverse sample of 250 children (50% female sex assigned at birth; = 49.02 months, = 2.99) and their maternal caregivers (55.6% Latina; 37.6% poverty), this study evaluated a multiple mediation model to integrate heretofore distinct bodies of research examining (a) parenting effects on the development of emotion knowledge and (b) emotion knowledge effects on socioemotional adaptation. Observations of maternal supportive presence at age 4 predicted increases in children's emotion recognition and labeling from ages 4 to 8. However, only emotion labeling skills explained children's behavioral adjustment outcomes with a significant pathway from supportive parenting at age 4 to fewer externalizing and internalizing behavior problems at age 10 via improved emotion labeling skills. These findings suggest that emotion knowledge, particularly labeling skills, partially explains the protective impact of supportive parenting on behavioral adaptation across childhood. Prevention and intervention efforts should target both supportive parenting practices and emotion knowledge skill development to support children's socioemotional functioning and reduce behavior problems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
儿童的情绪知识包括识别和标记情绪以实现积极适应的能力。本研究以250名儿童（50%为出生时被指定的女性；平均年龄 = 49.02个月，标准差 = 2.99）及其母亲照顾者（55.6%为拉丁裔；37.6%处于贫困状态）为样本，该样本在社会人口统计学上具有多样性，研究评估了一个多重中介模型，以整合此前不同的研究领域，这些领域分别考察：（a）养育方式对情绪知识发展的影响，以及（b）情绪知识对社会情绪适应的影响。对4岁时母亲支持性陪伴的观察预测了儿童在4至8岁期间情绪识别和标记能力的提高。然而，只有情绪标记技能解释了儿童的行为调整结果，存在一条从4岁时支持性养育方式到10岁时通过提高情绪标记技能减少外化和内化行为问题的显著路径。这些发现表明，情绪知识，特别是标记技能，部分解释了支持性养育方式对儿童期行为适应的保护作用。预防和干预措施应针对支持性养育方式和情绪知识技能发展，以支持儿童的社会情绪功能并减少行为问题。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2025美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
