Gender Differences in Parent–Child Emotion Narratives

By Robyn Fivush, M. Brotman, Janine P. Buckner, S. Goodman. 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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Relating emotional abilities to social functioning: a comparison of self-report and performance measures of emotional intelligence. (2006, background): “For example, there is evidence that women use a more varied emotions vocabulary (e.g., Adams et al., 1995; Fivush et al., 2000) and are better than men at reading nonverbal behaviors, including facial expressions of emotions (e.g., Hall, 1978, 1984; McClure, 2000; Rosenthal, Hall, DiMatteo, Rogers,…”
Parental socialization of emotion expression: gender differences and relations to child adjustment. (2005, result): “This converges with past observational research, which has found gender differences in mothers’ use of emotion words with daughters and sons (e.g., Dunn, Brown, & Beardsall, 1991; Fivush, 1989; Fivush et al., 2000).”
Remembering to Relate: Socioemotional Correlates of Mother-Child Reminiscing (2002, background): “Several studies have demonstrated that parents are more elaborate and more emotional when reminiscing with daughters than with sons (Fivush et al., 2000; Reese, Haden, & Fivush, 1996).”
Child Regulation of Negative Emotions and Depressive Symptoms: The Moderating Role of Parental Emotion Socialization (2015, neutral): “Research demonstrates that parents are more likely to discuss sadness with girls and anger with boys, and that mothers tend to talk about emotions more with their daughters than sons (e.g., Fivush et al. 2000).”
Development of Emotional Intelligence: Towards a Multi-Level Investment Model (2003, background): “There are also gender differences in the narrative focus of parent-child conversations, relating to child rather than parent gender: conversations with daughters tend to be more interpersonally situated [Fivush et al., 2000].”