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Conversations about emotion in high-risk dyads.
Attach Hum Dev. 2008 Dec; 10(4):359-77.AH

Abstract

Early emotional understanding is fostered by mother-child conversation in which mothers elaboratively enhance children's understanding. Little is known of the broader relational and risk factors influencing maternal discourse style, how discourse content and quality are associated with children's emotion language, and how these predict emotion understanding. In this longitudinal study of a high-risk sample, attachment security and family risks were assessed when children were 2 years old. One year later, observations of mother-child emotion conversation yielded measures of maternal discourse content and quality, and children's emotion words and emotion labels. Child emotion understanding was independently assessed one year later as well. Central findings were: (1) content and quality of maternal discourse was negatively related to family risk factors and positively associated with secure attachment; (2) child emotion language in conversation was positively associated with secure attachment beyond the effects of child language and maternal discourse content; and (3) differences in emotion language ability predicted children's emotion understanding.

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Raikes HA
University of California, Davis, CA, USA. abbie.raikes@gatesfoundation.org
Thompson RA
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MeSH

AdultChild, PreschoolCommunicationEmotionsFemaleHumansLanguageMaleMother-Child RelationsObject Attachment

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

19016047

Citation

Raikes, H Abigail, and Ross A. Thompson. "Conversations About Emotion in High-risk Dyads." Attachment & Human Development, vol. 10, no. 4, 2008, pp. 359-77.
Raikes HA, Thompson RA. Conversations about emotion in high-risk dyads. Attach Hum Dev. 2008;10(4):359-77.
Raikes, H. A., & Thompson, R. A. (2008). Conversations about emotion in high-risk dyads. Attachment & Human Development, 10(4), 359-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616730802461367
Raikes HA, Thompson RA. Conversations About Emotion in High-risk Dyads. Attach Hum Dev. 2008;10(4):359-77. PubMed PMID: 19016047.
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