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Journal article
Maternal Attachment Status, Mother-Child Emotion Talk, Emotion Understanding, and Child Conduct Problems
Child development research
2013
Abstract
Conduct problems that emerge in childhood often persist into adolescence and are associated with a range of negative outcomes. It is therefore important to identify the factors that predict conduct problems in early childhood. The present study investigated the relations among maternal attachment status, mother-child emotion talk, child emotion understanding, and conduct problems in a sample of 92 (46 males) typically developing children (M age = 61.3 months, SD = 8.3 months). The results support a model in which maternal attachment status predicts the level of appropriate/responsive mother-child emotion talk, which predicts child emotion understanding, which in turn negatively predicts child conduct problems. These findings further underline the developmental role of mother-child emotion talk as well as the importance of involving parents in programs designed to increase children’s emotion understanding and/or decrease the incidence of conduct problems.
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- Title
- Maternal Attachment Status, Mother-Child Emotion Talk, Emotion Understanding, and Child Conduct Problems
- Authors/Creators
- Brad M. Farrant - School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, M304, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia, P.O. Box 855, West Perth, WA 6872, AustraliaMurray T. Maybery - School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, M304, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, AustraliaJanet Fletcher - School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, M304, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
- Publication Details
- Child development research
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 9
- Identifiers
- 991005870932007891
- Copyright
- © 2013 Brad M. Farrant et al.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Ngangk Yira Institute for Change
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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