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

本项目的目的是探讨母亲的情绪知识、养育方式和社交行为对三年级孩子的情绪理解和社交能力的影响。情绪理解被定义为识别准确性（正确识别他人的情绪）和情绪知识（知道人们在某些情况下的感受以及这些感受状态的原因和后果）。一个概念模型将进行测试，其中母亲的信念的情绪，他们的养育方式和自己的理解的情绪影响他们的孩子的情绪理解，通过母亲的社会化行为的调解情绪。 研究人员的合作团队探索了情绪理解的多个组成部分之间的关系（包括人们在脸上表现出的情绪的准确性，以及人们何时以及为什么会有某些感受，以及表现或控制他们的感受）。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教师和同龄人的关系，这些协会中的每一个都将在种族和阶级的背景下进行研究。本研究首次全面、动态地、在关系中考察儿童的情绪理解，全面探讨母亲的教养方式、情绪相关信念和社会化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校社会能力纳入一项研究，并考虑在一个完全平衡的设计中，种族和阶级的影响，所有上述不混淆。这项工作将提供研究培训的机会，在两个卡罗莱纳州和北卡罗来纳州，包括参与者代表性不足的群体在一个样本，以及平衡的种族和社会经济地位。此外，将为学生创造机会，开拓自己的研究项目（例如，对于硕士或博士论文）从非常丰富的数据集，将出现从这个项目。重要的是，该项目代表了NCSU心理学系与Frank Porter Graham儿童发展研究所和UNC-Chapel Hill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。

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.