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  • Child Psychology
  • Family Studies

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  • Child negative affectivity is biologically based but influenced by family emotional environments.
  • Maternal emotion expressivity shapes children's emotional experiences and development.
  • Longitudinal bidirectional links between child temperament and maternal expressivity are theorized but understudied.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the longitudinal, reciprocal relations between child negative affectivity and maternal expressivity from toddlerhood to early school-age.
  • To investigate how child temperament and maternal emotional expression influence each other over time within the family context.
  • To clarify the interplay between child negative affectivity and maternal positive/negative expressivity.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a cross-lagged panel model to analyze longitudinal data.
  • Collected data from 140 mother-child dyads across three time points: toddlerhood, preschool, and early school-age.
  • Utilized maternal self-reports on family expressivity and child negative affectivity.

Main Results:

  • Maternal negative expressivity and child negative affectivity were correlated at baseline.
  • Maternal negative expressivity at toddlerhood predicted child negative affectivity in early school-age.
  • Child negative affectivity in preschool predicted maternal negative expressivity in early school-age.
  • Maternal positive expressivity showed no significant relation to child negative affectivity.

Conclusions:

  • Demonstrated significant reciprocal relationships between child negative affectivity and maternal negative expressivity.
  • Emphasized the dynamic interplay between child temperament and maternal emotional expression in shaping the family emotional environment.
  • Highlighted the importance of considering bidirectional influences in early childhood development research.