Towards a detailed understanding of preschool children’s memory-related functioning and emotion regulation: The role of parents’ observed reminiscence style, memory valence, and parental gender

Jolene Van der Kaap-Deeder; Bart Soenens; Athanasios Mouratidis; Sarah De Pauw; Peter Krøjgaard; Maarten Vansteenkiste

doi:10.1037/dev0001048

Towards a detailed understanding of preschool children’s memory-related functioning and emotion regulation: The role of parents’ observed reminiscence style, memory valence, and parental gender

Jolene Van der Kaap-Deeder, Bart Soenens, Athanasios Mouratidis, Sarah De Pauw, Peter Krøjgaard, Maarten Vansteenkiste

Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences - CON AMORE

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This study examined the role of parents' reminiscing style in preschoolers' memory-related functioning and general emotion regulation. In 87 families, each parent rated their child's (M _age = 4.07 years, SD = 0.80) emotion regulation and discussed a positive and a negative memory with their child (resulting in 275 conversations). Multilevel analyses showed that children's rated engagement during the conversation was higher when parents were observed to use autonomy-supportive, elaborative, and positive evaluative reminiscing, while children's rated disaffection was predicted by low autonomy support, low elaboration, and negative evaluation. Parental positive evaluation also related positively to children's memory performance. With respect to emotion regulation, only parents' negative evaluation when talking about negative memories related to higher emotional lability.

Original language	English
Journal	Developmental Psychology
Volume	56
Issue	9
Pages (from-to)	1696-1708
Number of pages	13
ISSN	0012-1649
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001048
Publication status	Published - Sept 2020

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Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., Soenens, B., Mouratidis, A., De Pauw, S., Krøjgaard, P., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2020). Towards a detailed understanding of preschool children’s memory-related functioning and emotion regulation: The role of parents’ observed reminiscence style, memory valence, and parental gender. Developmental Psychology, 56(9), 1696-1708. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001048

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Towards a detailed understanding of preschool children’s memory-related functioning and emotion regulation: The role of parents’ observed reminiscence style, memory valence, and parental gender. / Van der Kaap-Deeder, Jolene; Soenens, Bart; Mouratidis, Athanasios et al.
In: Developmental Psychology, Vol. 56, No. 9, 09.2020, p. 1696-1708.

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