Article
Physiology and functioning: Parents’ vagal tone, emotion socialization, and children’s emotion knowledge
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
(2008)
Abstract
This study examined relationships among parents’ physiological
regulation, their emotion socialization behaviors, and their children’s
emotion knowledge. Parents’ resting cardiac vagal tone
was measured, and parents provided information regarding their
socialization behaviors and family emotional expressiveness. Their
4- or 5-year-old children (N = 42) participated in a laboratory session
in which their knowledge of emotional facial expressions and
situations was tested and their own resting vagal tone was monitored.
Results showed that parents’ vagal tone was related to their
socialization behaviors, and several parent socialization variables
were related to their children’s emotion knowledge. These findings
suggest that parents’ physiological regulation may affect the emotional
development of their children by influencing their parenting
behaviors.
Keywords
- Emotion knowledge,
- Emotion socialization,
- Emotional development,
- Vagal tone
Disciplines
Publication Date
August, 2008
DOI
10.1016/j.jecp.2008.03.007
Citation Information
Susan B. Perlman, Linda A. Camras and Kevin A. Pelphrey. "Physiology and functioning: Parents’ vagal tone, emotion socialization, and children’s emotion knowledge" Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Vol. 100 Iss. 4 (2008) p. 308 - 315 ISSN: 0022-0965 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/linda_camras/48/