1-099 - Socialization of Emotion Regulation: Goals and Practices around the World

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Emotion regulation strategies vary around the world, and likely reflect goals and practices of the culture, as socialized via parents’ beliefs, goals, and practices. We suggest that beliefs and goals guide how parents identify the niches that support emotion regulation, regulate emotion in themselves (modeling), and scaffold emotion knowledge in their children through conversation. Eight cultures are represented in this symposium, as well as issues of power, inequality, and social change within some of these cultures (Adams et al.; Kathuria et al.) and global change and acculturation (Friedlmeier et al; Yang et al.). The symposium begins with two studies that explore the belief systems of the Mapuche people regarding children’s emotion and assess the presence of those beliefs and consequential emotion regulation strategies in Mapuche and non-Mapuche Chilean parents and teachers; several distinctive beliefs and strategies not previously recognized are identified. A second presentation compares within-culture differences -- between mothers’ endorsement of regulatory strategies for their toddlers with differently empowered caregivers (relevant to maternal authority); their strategies may differ due to their different statuses in the family. The third presentation examines how Chinese-immigrant and European-American mothers engage in different emotion conversation practices and how these differences as well as acculturation impact children’s skill over time. The fourth presentation emphasizes how the beliefs and goals of four different cultures, varying in social change and psychological interdependence, relate to socialization strategies and subsequent outcomes. Also planned for discussion are organizing questions to expand on the symposium themes.

Sub Unit

• Social, Emotional, Personality

Chairs

• Amy Halberstadt, North Carolina State University

• Wolfgang Friedlmeier, Grand Valley State University

Individual Presentations

• Beliefs about Emotion Regulation among Mapuche and non-Mapuche Chileans Parents and Teachers - Presenting Author: Dejah Oertwig, North Carolina State University; Enrique Riquelme-Mella, Temuco Catholic University; Grace R Shaughnessey, North Carolina State University; Amy Halberstadt, North Carolina State University

• Emotion Socialization of Toddlers in an Urban Indian Perspective - Presenting Author: Tripti Kathuria, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara; Presenting Author: Shagufa Kapadia, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara

• Mother-Child Reminiscing and Children’s Emotion Knowledge over Time in European American and Chinese Immigrant Families - Presenting Author: Yang Yang, Cornell University; Jessie Bee Kim Koh, University of Alberta; Qi Wang, Dept. of Human Development, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University

• Cultural Variants of Maternal Emotion Regulation of Toddler Emotions: Profiles of Romanian, Turkish, Israeli Jewish and US Mothers - Presenting Author: Wolfgang Friedlmeier, Grand Valley State University; Feyza Corapci, Bogazici University; Oana Benga, Babes Bolyai University; Jenny Kurman, Haifa University; Georgiana Susa, Babes-Bolyai University