Chinese American Immigrant Parents' Socialization of Emotions in Bilingual Bicultural Preschool Children.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to examine Cantonese-speaking Chinese American immigrant parents' socialization of emotions in bilingual bicultural preschool children, using a combination of a parent questionnaire and parent language samples from emotion-elicited storytelling tasks. Sixteen Cantonese-speaking parents and their children participated in this study. Children were sequential bilinguals who were exposed to Cantonese (L1) at home since birth, and then learned English (L2) at school. The Chinese parent questionnaire examined parents' emotion talk in the home, as well as the child's dual language background and language distribution. Parents' language samples in Cantonese were collected from three parent-child storytelling tasks that each elicited a different type of negative emotio

SUBMITTER: Huang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8362853 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature