Presentation 2017-01-27
The Relation between Maternal Emotion Teaching and Preschoolers' Emotion Knowledge
Naomi Watanabe, Susanne Denham, Hideko Bassett, Tessei Kobayashi,
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Abstract(in English) We examined the relation between maternal emotion teaching and preschoolers’ emotion knowledge in Japan. Fifty-one Japanese preschoolers’ emotion knowledge was assessed. We videotaped mother-child interactions in book reading and reminiscence of emotional experience and coded mothers’ utterances containing emotion words and the function of the utterances and whose emotion they referred. How mothers use emotion words differed between book reading and reminiscence, suggesting that the two contexts may offer different functions as emotion socialization. The results of hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that mothers’ questioning, clarifying, and reference to child’s feelings predicted preschoolers’ emotion knowledge. Also, moderation effects of preschoolers’ age on the relation were found. Implications of findings in relation to cultural context are discussed.
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Keyword(in English) emotion teaching / emotion knowledge / mother-child conversation / preschoolers
Paper # HCS2016-75
Date of Issue 2017-01-20 (HCS)

Conference Information
Committee HCS
Conference Date 2017/1/27(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Namiki Square
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Psychology and Life-stage of Communication, etc.
Chair Yukiko Nakano(Seikei Univ.)
Vice Chair Nobuyuki Watanabe(Kanazawa Inst. of Tech.) / Tomoo Inoue(Univ. of Tsukuba)
Secretary Nobuyuki Watanabe(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Tomoo Inoue(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.)
Assistant Ryo Ishii(NTT) / Kazuki Takashima(Tohoku Univ.) / Ken Fujiwara(Osaka Univ. of Economic)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Human Communication Science
Language JPN
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Title (in English) The Relation between Maternal Emotion Teaching and Preschoolers' Emotion Knowledge
Sub Title (in English) Mother-Child Conversations in Book Reading and Reminiscence of Emotional Experience
Keyword(1) emotion teaching
Keyword(2) emotion knowledge
Keyword(3) mother-child conversation
Keyword(4) preschoolers
1st Author's Name Naomi Watanabe
1st Author's Affiliation NTT Communications Science Laboratories(NTT)
2nd Author's Name Susanne Denham
2nd Author's Affiliation George Mason University(GMU)
3rd Author's Name Hideko Bassett
3rd Author's Affiliation George Mason University(GMU)
4th Author's Name Tessei Kobayashi
4th Author's Affiliation NTT Communications Science Laboratories(NTT)
Date 2017-01-27
Paper # HCS2016-75
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) HCS-436
Page pp.pp.91-95(HCS),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2017-01-20 (HCS)