Maternal Reminiscing Style and Children’s Developing Understanding of Self and Emotion |
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Authors: | Robyn Fivush |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, Emory University, 532 N. Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA |
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Abstract: | Individual differences in how mothers structure reminiscing about shared past experiences with their preschool children are
related to children’s developing autobiographical memory skills and understanding of self and emotion. More specifically,
mothers who engage in highly elaborative reminiscing have children who come to tell more coherent and emotionally expressive
autobiographical narratives, and these children also show better understanding of self and are better able to regulate emotion
than children of less elaborative mothers. This body of research is reviewed and relations between maternal reminiscing style
and children’s developing self and emotional understanding are explicated.
This paper was written while the first author was a senior fellow in the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion
at Emory University, sponsored by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts. The opinions expressed here are those of the authors
and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Pew Charitable trusts. |
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Keywords: | Reminiscing Autobiographical memory Self Emotion |
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