Collaborative Research: A Dynamic Multidimensional Examination of Parental Socialization of Children's Emotion Understanding and Social Competence in Middle Childhood

合作研究：对儿童中期儿童情感理解和社交能力的父母社会化的动态多维检查

• 批准号: 1023839
• 负责人: Amy Halberstadt
• 金额: $ 12.51万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1023839&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Dynamic; Multidimensional; Examination

The purpose of this project is to examine the influence of mothers' knowledge of emotions, parenting style, and socializing behaviors on emotional understanding and social competence of their third grade children. Emotional understanding is defined as both recognition accuracy (correctly identifying emotions seen in others) and emotion knowledge (knowing what people feel in certain situations as well as the causes and consequences of those feeling states). A conceptual model will be tested in which mothers' beliefs about emotions; their parenting styles and their own understanding of emotions affect their children's emotional understanding as mediated through mother's socialization behaviors around emotions. The collaborative team of investigators explores relationships between multiple components of emotion understanding (including accuracy regarding emotions people show on their faces, and knowledge about when and why people have certain feelings, and show or control their feelings). They will also examine how the multiple components of children's emotion understanding affect children's social skills and relationships with teachers and peers, and each of these associations will be studied within the contexts of race and class. This project is one of the first to examine children's emotion understanding comprehensively, dynamically, and within relationships; to fully explore the effects of mothers' parenting styles, emotion-related beliefs, and socialization behaviors on children's emotion understanding; to include maternal variables, children's emotion understanding, and children's social competence in school in one study; and to consider the effects of race and class on all of the above within a fully balanced design in which race and class are not confounded.This work will provide opportunities for research training at both UNC and North Carolina State, including participants from underrepresented groups in a sample well-balanced by ethnicity and SES. In addition, opportunities will created for students to carve out their own research projects (e.g., for Masters or doctoral theses) from the very rich data set that will emerge from this project. Importantly, the project represents the first inter-institutional collaboration between the Psychology Department at NCSU and the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and the Center for Developmental Science at UNC-Chapel Hill; if it goes well, new cross-campus educational opportunities could emerge. Finally, the investigators are committed to disseminating their research findings.

本研究旨在探讨母亲的情绪知识、父母教养方式、社交行为对三年级儿童情绪理解与社交能力的影响。情绪理解被定义为识别的准确性(正确识别他人的情绪)和情绪知识(了解人们在特定情况下的感受以及这些感觉状态的原因和结果)。将测试一个概念模型，在该模型中，母亲对情感的信念、她们的父母养育方式和她们自己对情感的理解通过母亲围绕情感的社会化行为来影响孩子的情感理解。这个合作的研究团队探索了情绪理解的多个组成部分之间的关系(包括关于人们在脸上表现出的情绪的准确性，以及关于人们何时和为什么会有某种感觉的知识，以及显示或控制他们的感觉的知识)。他们还将研究儿童情绪理解的多个组成部分如何影响儿童的社交技能以及与老师和同龄人的关系，这些联系将在种族和班级的背景下进行研究。这个项目是第一个全面、动态和在关系中考察儿童情绪理解的项目之一；充分探索母亲的父母教养方式、情绪相关信念和社交行为对儿童情绪理解的影响；将母亲变量、儿童情绪理解和儿童在学校的社交能力纳入一项研究；并在一个完全平衡的设计中考虑种族和阶级对以上所有因素的影响，其中不混淆种族和阶级。这项工作将为北卡罗来纳大学和北卡罗来纳州的研究性培训提供机会，包括在种族和社会地位平衡的样本中来自代表性不足群体的参与者。此外，将为学生创造机会，从这个项目将产生的非常丰富的数据集中创建他们自己的研究项目(例如，硕士或博士论文)。重要的是，该项目是NCSU心理学系与弗兰克·波特·格雷厄姆儿童发展研究所和北卡罗来纳大学教堂山发展科学中心之间的首次机构间合作；如果进展顺利，可能会出现新的跨校园教育机会。最后，研究人员致力于传播他们的研究成果。