Emotion Sharing in Preadolescent Children: Divergence From Friendships and Relation to Prosocial Behavior in the Peer Group
| Autor: | Jessica B. Willenbrink, Kyongboon Kwon, Bridget G. Brinckman, Madeline N. Bliske |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Divergence (linguistics) 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Peer group Developmental psychology Prosocial behavior Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology Relation (history of concept) Association (psychology) Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Early Adolescence. 42:89-114 |
| ISSN: | 1552-5449 0272-4316 |
| Popis: | We examined the extent to which children’s emotion-sharing relationships were unique from friendships. We also examined the association between emotional experience and emotion sharing as well as the association between emotion sharing and prosocial behavior. Participants were 456 children ( Mage = 10.6 years) from the Midwestern United States. Peer nominations and self-report were used to assess study constructs. Despite considerable convergence between friendships and emotion-sharing relationships, children did not share emotions with 31% of close friends and 20% of emotion-sharing partners were not close friends, indicating divergence of the two relationships. Experience of happiness was positively associated with emotion sharing; emotion sharing was positively associated with prosocial behavior. Compared with boys, girls identified more partners and more same-gender peers for emotion-sharing relationships and they shared feelings with friends to a greater extent. We discussed emotion sharing as a compelling means for the development of children’s affective and social competence. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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