390 Pages
by Routledge

390 Pages
by Routledge

390 Pages
by Routledge

"The family is the place where minds come in contact with one another" - Buddha Emotions and the Family reflects the dramatic change in how professionals and practitioners working with today's families view the role of emotions in general family and marital processes. Professionals, researchers, and academics present a wide variety of approaches to the study of emotion and family functioning,... Read more
  • Part I: General Family/Marriage Processes
  • Introduction
  • A Family-Wide Model for the Role of Emotion in Family Functioning
  • A Meta-Analysis of Family Expressiveness and Children’s Emotion Expressiveness and Understanding
  • “When My Mommy Was Angry, I Was Speechless”: Children’s Perceptions of Maternal Emotional Expressiveness Within the Context of Economic Hardship
  • Psychosocial Moderators of Emotional Reactivity to Marital Arguments: Results from a Daily Diary Study
  • Emotional and Relational Consequences of Coping in Stepfamilies
  • Affect Pattern Recognition: Using Discrete Hidden Markov Models to Discriminate Distressed from Nondistressed Couples
  • The Role of Emotions in Marriage and Family Therapy: Past, Present, and Future
  • Part II: Developmental and Parent-Child Processes
  • The Contributions of Older Siblings’ Reactions to Emotions to Preschoolers’ Emotional and Social Competence
  • Children’s Understanding of Emotion Communication in Families
  • Maternal Sensitivity and Infant Emotional Reactivity: Concurrent and Longitudinal Relations
  • Children’s Emotional Reactions to Stressful Parent-Child Interactions: The Link Between Emotion Regulations and Vagal Tone
  • The Coping with Children’s Negative Emotions Scale (CCNES): Psychometric Properties and Relations with Children’s Emotional Competence
  • Parental Contributions to Preschoolers’ Understanding of Emotion
  • Children’s Emotional Regulation and Social Competence in Middle Childhood: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Interactive Style
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Richard Fabes, Gary W Peterson, Suzanne Steinmetz