“What a naughty little girl!” A cross-cultural comparison of emotion talk during booksharing in Costa Rican and German mother-child dyads
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| Autori: | , |
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| Natura: | capítulo de libro |
| Data di pubblicazione: | 2026 |
| Descrizione: | Previous research showed that urban, educated Costa Rican mother–child dyads discuss emotions more frequently during booksharing than German dyads. This study further explored this difference by analyzing the use of specific types of emotional terms in booksharing conversations between mothers and their 4-year-old children in Costa Rica and Germany (n = 26 per group). Findings revealed that both groups referred to emotional states, emotional behaviors, and emotional-evaluative references similarly, reflecting a shared emphasis on psychological autonomy. However, only Costa Rican dyads frequently incorporated moral appraisals, specifying judgments about emotion regulation and expression of the characters in the book, highlighting the cultural value of hierarchical-relatedness alongside autonomy. These findings suggest that emotion talk during booksharing reflects distinct cultural models, with Costa Rican dyads integrating both autonomy and relatedness cultural values and German dyads focusing primarily on autonomy. |
| Stato: | Kérwá |
| Istituzione: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Kérwá |
| Lingua: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/104777 |
| Accesso online: | https://hdl.handle.net/10669/104777 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-14688-5_4 |
| Keyword: | book sharing Costa Rica cross-cultural differences emotion talk Germany parent-child interactions Emotions Emotional development Social behaviour Social and emotional learning Child rearing Child psychology |