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Maternal reminiscing as critical to emotion socialization
1Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30030, USA.
Mental Health & Prevention
|May 16, 2023
Summary
Maternal reminiscing enhances children's emotion understanding and regulation. Coaching mothers to reminisce elaboratively improves these socioemotional skills, crucial for positive child development.
Area of Science:
- Child Development
- Psychology
- Social Sciences
Background:
- Socioemotional skills are vital for positive child development, highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Parent-child talk is a key context for emotion socialization.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review how maternal reminiscing style impacts emotion socialization in children.
- To examine the effects on both typically and atypically developing children.
Main Methods:
- Theoretical and empirical review of existing research.
- Analysis of individual differences in maternal reminiscing styles.
- Examination of intervention studies on coaching maternal reminiscing.
Main Results:
- Elaborative maternal reminiscing correlates with enhanced narrative skills and emotion understanding/regulation.
- Intervention studies show coaching improves maternal elaborative reminiscing.
- Improved maternal reminiscing leads to better child emotion understanding and regulation.
Conclusions:
- Reminiscing provides a context for exploring emotions in meaningful, real-world situations.
- This process supports children's developing emotion understanding.
- Maternal reminiscing is a powerful tool for socioemotional development.
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