Parental Reminiscing About Positive and Negative Events

By J. Sales, Robyn Fivush, C. Peterson. 2003

172 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Robyn Fivush
2. Elaine Reese
3. Qi Wang
4. C. Haden
5. D. Laible
6. R. Newcombe

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Elaine Reese
2. Robyn Fivush
3. Qi Wang
4. C. Haden
5. D. Leyva
6. W. Grolnick
7. Carrie E. Price
8. Kate C. McLean

Citations in the corpus

• Elaboration and Autonomy Support in Low-Income Mothers' Reminiscing: Links to Children's Autobiographical Narratives (2009, background): “Second, research has shown that children provide more elaborate and coherent narratives when discussing a negative than positive event (Ackil, Van Abbema, & Bauer, 2003 ; Sales, Fivush, & Peterson, 2003 ).”
• Children's Self‐esteem and Moral Self: Links to Parent–Child Conversations Regarding Emotion (2007, unknown): “As in the present study, compared with conversations regarding negative past events, conversations regarding positive past events also contain fewer explanations of emotions and events (Ackil et al., 2003; Sales et al., 2003).”
• Emotion Talk in Mother-Child Conversations of the Shared Past: The Effects of Culture, Gender, and Event Valence (2005, background): “This pattern most likely reflects the different functions that emotional reminiscing may play for positive versus negative events (Fivush et al., 2003; Sales et al., 2003; Wang & Fivush, 2003).”
• Maternal Reminiscing Style and Children’s Developing Understanding of Self and Emotion (2007, background): “In line with this interpretation, mothers talk more about the causes of negative events than of positive events (Ackil et al., 2003; Sales et al., 2003 ), and elicit more information about the causes of these events from their children.”
• Mother–Child Conversations of Emotionally Salient Events: Exploring the Functions of Emotional Reminiscing in European-American and Chinese Families (2005, result): “Our results confirm previous research that has found a greater focus on discussion of emotion and its causes when reminiscing regarding negative compared with positive events; yet previous research also found that mother–child conversations regarding negative events were longer than those regarding ”
• Elaborating on elaborations: role of maternal reminiscing style in cognitive and socioemotional development. (2006, background): “…a coherent account of negative events that may help them to understand how and what happened, whereas reminiscing about positive events may reflect a focus on creating a shared history (Fivush et al., 2003; Sales et al., 2003) and fostering children’s self-esteem (Reese, Bird, & Tripp, in press).”