Examination of Parenting Styles of Processing Emotions and Differentiation of Self

摘要: Gottman and associates theorized emotion coaching, parents’ processing of negative emotions with children, as important for children’s later development. Bowen viewed differentiation, the balance between emotional cognitive reactions to one’s family origin, an developmental process. However, research has not specified parenting methods that foster healthy differentiation. The authors hypothesized adults emotion-coaching parents have healthier differentiation than those parented other styles. A total 254 (129 female, 124 male) participants completed surveys measuring perception styles self. For male participants, perceiving their having a disapproving style was associated poor sense female high levels fusion low cutoff were mothers. Implications limitations are discussed.