Understanding of Emotions and Empathy: Predictors of Positive Parenting with Preschoolers in Economically Stressed Families

Autor:	Forogh Rahim, Joanna Herres, Katherine E. Dilks, E. Stephanie Krauthamer Ewing, Christopher J. Trentacosta
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	050103 clinical psychology media_common.quotation_subject Emotional intelligence 05 social sciences Personal distress Context (language use) Empathy Anger Developmental psychology Sadness Maternal sensitivity Head start Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Child and Family Studies. 28:1346-1358
ISSN:	1573-2843 1062-1024
DOI:	10.1007/s10826-018-01303-6
Popis:	This study investigated predictors of sensitive and responsive parenting of 3- to 5-year old children within the context of a small urban Head Start system, serving mostly African American and Latino families (N = 86 dyads; 91% African American). Mothers and their children participated in a brief sadness induction (viewing a video clip validated for sadness induction in children), and mothers were subsequently asked to engage their child in discussion about the video. Mother-child discussions were videotaped and parenting behaviors and maternal affect were coded by trained raters. Controlling for maternal verbal ability, maternal facilitative emotional intelligence (understanding the adaptive functions of emotions) and aspects of maternal empathy (self-focused vs other focused emotional resonance) were examined as predictors of observed parenting with children during the interaction task. Higher levels of maternal facilitative emotional intelligence and lower levels of maternal empathic personal distress predicted sensitive and responsive parenting (maternal sensitivity; positive regard toward child), even after controlling for maternal verbal ability. Higher levels of maternal empathic personal distress predicted harsh and intrusive parenting (intrusive behaviors; expressions of anger and frustration). Results contribute to knowledge pertaining to predictors of parenting, particularly predictors of positive parenting. The results support the important and nuanced role of parental empathy in influencing parenting behaviors and point to facilitative emotional intelligence as an additional correlate of sensitive and responsive parenting. Measuring and investigating growth in parents’ facilitative emotional intelligence and empathic distress tolerance could help inform innovative new approaches to studying change processes in various parenting support programs.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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