Anger in families

Halberstadt, Amy G.; Beale, Karen S.; Meade, Adam W.; Craig, Ashley B.; Parker, Alison E.

doi:10.1177/0265407514552617

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“…Misinterpretations about children’s anger (e.g., perceiving anger when it does not exist) can be highly problematic in two ways. Anger is emotionally contagious in multiple types of settings (Elfenbein, 2014; Halberstadt, Beale, Meade, Craig, & Parker, 2015) and a cascading effect from incorrectly perceived anger to teachers becoming angry themselves, resulting in truly angry students is not an unlikely consequence (Becker, Goetz, Morger, & Ranellucci, 2014). Further, because perceived anger (even if misinterpreted) can evoke punishment as well as anger (Côté-Lussier, 2013), teachers’ misperception of anger may also lead to adverse consequences such as undeserved interruptions from learning (e.g., time outs or suspensions).…”

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Racialized emotion recognition accuracy and anger bias of children’s faces.

Halberstadt

Cooke

Garner

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Research suggests that individuals are racially biased when judging the emotions of others (Elfenbein & Ambady, 2002) and particularly regarding attributions about the emotion of anger (Halberstadt, Castro, Chu, Lozada, & Sims, 2018; Hugenberg & Bodenhausen, 2003). Systematic, balanced designs are rare, and are comprised of adults viewing adults. The present study expands the questions of racialized emotion recognition accuracy and anger bias to the world of children. Findings that adults demonstrate either less emotion accuracy and/or greater anger bias for Black versus White children could potentially explain some of the large racialized disciplinary discrepancies in schools. To test whether racialized emotion recognition accuracy and anger bias toward children exists, we asked 178 prospective teachers to complete an emotion recognition task comprised of 72 children’s facial expressions depicting six emotions and divided equally by race (Black, White) and gender (female, male). We also assessed implicit bias via the child race Implicit Association Test and explicit bias via questionnaire. Multilevel modeling revealed nuanced racialized emotion recognition accuracy with a race by gender interaction, but clear racialized anger bias toward both Black boys and girls. Both Black boys and Black girls were falsely seen as angry more often than White boys and White girls. Higher levels of either implicit or explicit bias did not increase odds of Black children being victim to anger bias, but instead decreased odds that White children would be misperceived as angry. Implications for addressing preexisting biases in teacher preparation programs and by children and parents are discussed.

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Racialized emotion recognition accuracy and anger bias of children’s faces.

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Garner

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“…Thus, the SRM partitions the variance to include group-level effects, relationship-level effects for individuals within the group, and individual-level actor and partner effects. In using the SRM, researchers have increased our understanding of some unique dimensions of close relationships (Eichelsheim, Deković, Buist, & Cook, 2009;Halberstadt, Beale, Meade, Craig, & Parker, 2015). Given many researchers' unfamiliarity with the SRM and data structure considerations (e.g., multiple measures of the construct of interest), a full SRM analysis is not always possible or desirable.…”

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Theoretical and methodological issues in relationship research

Galovan

Holmes

Proulx

2016

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Family and relationship researchers ask research questions at the dyadic- or family level, yet analyses are often conducted at the individual level. We review theoretical perspectives relative to studying families and dyads and note how they are connected with dyadic analysis techniques. We note differences in theoretical assumptions underlying the actor–partner interdependence model, the common fate model (CFM), and hybrid models that combine features of both and distinguish between the types of questions each addresses. Using third grade, sixth grade, and age 15 data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 732), we illustrate the value of using CFM and hybrid models to explore how family chaos is associated with couple conflict resolution and child behavior problems. Dyadic- and family-level analyses may offer additional insight into family functioning, and we provide recommendations for the use of CFM in furthering this line of inquiry.

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“…Negative emotional states in fathers may be related to children’s behavioral adjustment by perpetuating interparental conflict. For instance, anger tends to initiate emotional contagion in family members, which may prime destructive interpersonal conflicts (Halberstadt et al, 2015). Against the backdrop of interparental conflict, children are at an elevated risk of internalizing and externalizing problems (El-Sheikh et al, 2019).…”

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Mothers’ depressive symptoms and children’s behavioral adjustment: The role of negative parental emotional states.

Wang,

Wu,

Chen

2023

Journal of Family Psychology

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The contribution of fathers and family dynamics to the deleterious effects of mothers' depressive symptoms on children's behavioral adjustment has been evaluated in this study. Using longitudinal data spanning from toddlerhood to grade school (N = 1,311), this study examined whether negative emotional states in both parents related to mothers' cumulative depressive symptoms during the early years of children were associated with children's later internalizing and externalizing problems in grade school. A random intercept cross-lagged panel model was used to segregate between-and within-individual effects. The results demonstrated that, independent of fathers' depressive symptoms, high levels of maternal cumulative depressive symptoms were positively associated with negative emotional states in both parents over time, which then independently mediated the longitudinal associations between mothers' depressive symptoms and children's subsequent behavioral maladjustment, particularly internalizing problems, at the betweenindividual trait level. The findings highlight the interdependence of family members from a longitudinal perspective and support the unique contributions of both parents' negative emotional states to better understand children's behavioral adjustment in the context of maternal depressive symptoms.

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Anger in families

Cited by 7 publications

References 59 publications

Racialized emotion recognition accuracy and anger bias of children’s faces.

Racialized emotion recognition accuracy and anger bias of children’s faces.

Theoretical and methodological issues in relationship research

Mothers’ depressive symptoms and children’s behavioral adjustment: The role of negative parental emotional states.

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