Cross-Cultural Parent Emotion Socialization Practices: Greater Parental Distress, and Minimization and Punitive Reactions to Children's Negative Emotions in French Vs. US Preschool Parents

We examined differences between 64 French and 31 US parents’ self-reported responses to their child’s expression of negative emotions. Results indicate that, controlling for parent education level and child age, French parents endorsed feeling more distress, and more frequent use of punitive, minimizing reactions to children’s negative emotions.