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Marissa Ogren1, Scott P Johnson1
1Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States.
Abstract:
The present study examined the impact of emotional expressiveness in toddlers' environments on their emotion understanding. Primary caregivers of 35 toddlers completed two surveys regarding the family's emotional expressiveness and the primary caregiver's expressivity. Toddlers participated in the Affective Knowledge Test to measure emotion understanding. Toddler emotion understanding related to primary caregiver expressivity, but not family expressiveness. Further, toddler emotion understanding related to primary caregiver Impulse Strength, but not Negative or Positive Emotionality. This suggests that primary caregivers with more impulsive emotional response tendencies may help their children to identify associations between emotional events and reactions.
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