PSYC14H3 Chapter : Variations on a Theme -- article 2 summary
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Culture and the meaning of socialization practices and child. Parents" perceptions of and responses to their children"s emotions play a critical role in the evolution of a child"s psychological well-being or difficulties. Three parental behaviours to make a prominent contribution to the development of social and emotional competence: parents" reactions to children"s emotions, discussion about emotions, parental expression of emotion. These 3 components of child-parent interactions converge with other individual differences (e. g. child temperament) to make demonstrable contributions to the development of competence/maladjustment. The importance of context in understanding and evaluating parental socialization of emotion and child social competence. Parents" idiosyncratic values and goals for their children. Meaning embedded in dyadic transactions between child and caregiver outcome. Cultural values for what constitutes effective childrearing and child. Without the study of cultural variations, we cannot understand the functional significance of children"s emotional behaviours and parents" socialization practices. Focused on the values of middle- to upper class americans of.
