TY - JOUR
T1 - Toddlers' Social- emotional Competence in the Contexts of Maternal Emotion Socialization and Contingent Responsiveness in a Low- income Sample
AU - Brophy- Herb, Holly E.
AU - Schiffman, Rachel F.
AU - Bocknek, Erika London
AU - Dupuis, Sara B.
AU - Fitzgerald, Hiram E.
AU - Horodynski, Mildred
AU - Onaga, Esther
AU - Van Egeren, Laurie A.
AU - Hillaker, Barbara
PY - 2011/2
Y1 - 2011/2
N2 - Early social- emotional development occurs in the context of parenting, particularly via processes such as maternal emotion socialization and parent-child interactions. Results from structural equation modeling indicated that maternal contingent responsiveness partially mediated the relationship between maternal emotion socialization of toddlers (N = 119, ages 12-36 months) and toddlers' social- emotional competence. Effect size was strongest for the direct path between maternal emotion socialization and toddler social-emotional competence. Toddler age and maternal demographic risk status (covariates) predicted toddler competence. Study results extend the previous literature on early competencies by focusing on toddlers rather than preschool- aged children and by employing a contextual model in which both low- income mothers' emotion socialization and their contingent responsiveness predicted toddlers' competencies.
AB - Early social- emotional development occurs in the context of parenting, particularly via processes such as maternal emotion socialization and parent-child interactions. Results from structural equation modeling indicated that maternal contingent responsiveness partially mediated the relationship between maternal emotion socialization of toddlers (N = 119, ages 12-36 months) and toddlers' social- emotional competence. Effect size was strongest for the direct path between maternal emotion socialization and toddler social-emotional competence. Toddler age and maternal demographic risk status (covariates) predicted toddler competence. Study results extend the previous literature on early competencies by focusing on toddlers rather than preschool- aged children and by employing a contextual model in which both low- income mothers' emotion socialization and their contingent responsiveness predicted toddlers' competencies.
KW - Emotion socialization
KW - Parenting
KW - Social- emotional competence
KW - Toddlers
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2009.00570.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2009.00570.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78650394405
SN - 0961-205X
VL - 20
SP - 73
EP - 92
JO - Social Development
JF - Social Development
IS - 1
ER -