parents of different cultures may vary in their patterns of emotional expression…the effects of parents’ emotional expression on children’s development appear to be consistent across cultures” (p. 619). In other words, it is a universal phenomenon that parents are able to impact the development of the child’s emotional socialization ability.
The extent to which children are able to regulate their emotions is determined, therefore, to a large extent by how their parents regulate their own emotions and the degree to which the parents are supportive of their children’s emotions. While self-regulation of the emotions can be quite difficult for children… Continue Reading...
observation and social learning, the toddler comes to understand which emotional expressions are socially acceptable or approved and which are not, leading to the ability to “elaborate,” and even control emotional responses in the first real demonstration of self-mastery (Labouvie-Vief, 2015, p. 67). Self-mastery behaviors are also evident in the way the child is starting to control bodily functions like toilet as well as aggressive responses (Lightfoot, Cole & Cole, 2009). The child is developing an “early understanding of the relationship between mental states and behavior,” which also leads to the burgeoning awareness of morality and social norms (Lightfoot, Cole… Continue Reading...
to actual emotional expressions or behavioral changes,… Continue Reading...
