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- Title
- The association between parent-child reminiscing and children's emotion knowledge
- Related
- New Zealand journal of psychology, Vol. 39, Issue 1, (2010), p.51-56
- Publisher
- The New Zealand Psychological Society
- Date
- 2010
- Author/Creator
- Van Bergen, Penny
- Author/Creator
- Salmon, Karen
- Description
- The way that parents discuss the past with their preschool children plays a significant role in the development of children’s store of personal memories, that is, their autobiographical memory. In this study we investigated two questions: first, whether parents who engage their children in high-relative to low-elaborative conversations about the past using “wh” questions and descriptive information also include more emotion references, and second, whether emotion content was associated with children’s emotion knowledge. Twenty-five European Australian preschoolers discussed four emotionoriented events with a parent. Controlling for age and language, parents’ elaborative utterances and their explanations of emotion causes (but not other emotion references) were each significantly associated with children’s emotion knowledge. Follow-up regression analyses revealed high-elaborative utterances to be the stronger predictor. These findings extend those of past research in highlighting the multiple associations between reminiscing and children’s developing understanding of emotion.
- Description
- 6 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 130300 Specialist Studies in Education
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Department of Education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/188684
- Identifier
- mq:21839
- Identifier
- ISSN:0112-109X
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2010004428
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
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