Children's Sensitivity to Facial Emotional Expressions: The Mediating Roles of Maternal Warmth and Home Environment.

ABSTRACT: Children's ability to recognize emotions in the facial expressions of others is critical for their social functioning and self-regulation. Children exposed to adversity often show differences in their ability to recognize emotions. However, most prior research has relied on clinical or high-risk samples and focused on exposure to extreme forms of adversity, such as child maltreatment or serious deprivation. The present study utilized data from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, an epidemiological cohort of 2232 British twins, to test whether (1) children growing up in households with lower versus higher socioeconomic status (SES) are less sensitive in their identification of emotions, controlling for child intelligence quotient (IQ) and sex, and, if so, (2) difference

SUBMITTER: Milojevich HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12614446 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature