Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood
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2024-03-09
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Child Development
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This study investigated emotion transmission among peers during middle childhood. Participants included 202 children (111 males; race: 58% African American, 20% European American, 16% Mixed race, 1% Asian American, and 5% Other; ethnicity: 23% Latino(a) and 77% Not Latino(a); Mincome = $42,183, SDincome = $43,889; Mage = 9.49; English-speaking; from urban and suburban areas of a mid-Atlantic state in the United States). Groups of four same-sex children interacted in round-robin dyads in 5-min tasks during 2015–2017. Emotions (happy, sad, angry, anxious, and neutral) were coded and represented as percentages of 30-s intervals. Analyses assessed whether children's emotion expression in one interval predicted change in partners' emotion expression in the next interval. Findings suggested: (a) escalation of positive and negative emotion [children's positive (negative) emotion predicts an increase in partners' positive (negative) emotion], and (b) de-escalation of positive and negative emotion (children's neutral emotion predicts a decrease in partners' positive or negative emotion). Importantly, de-escalation involved children's display of neutral emotion and not oppositely valenced emotion.
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hubbard, J. A., Moore, C. C., Zajac, L., Bookhout, M. K., & Dozier, M. (2023). Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood. Child Development, 00, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13917, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13917. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited. This article will be embargoed until 03/09/2024.
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Hubbard, J. A., Moore, C. C., Zajac, L., Bookhout, M. K., & Dozier, M. (2023). Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood. Child Development, 00, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13917