Far From Black and White: The role of Race on Mother’s views of Emotional Intelligence Development in Children
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This study aims to discover whether parental views of appropriate emotional expression and management development in children are affected by subculture within the US. Currently, many public and private educational institutions are devoting resources towards creating and implementing emotional intelligence curricula. Since the norms for emotional expression vary among cultures, it important to identify possible inconsistencies between curricula used at school and parental teachings in children’s homes. An understanding of whether racial or cultural backgrounds are a pertinent factor could be used to ensure compatibility between school and home. Data were collected through in-depth structured in person interviews with eighteen parents of children from two distinct self-identified cultural groups, Black parents of Black children age five to twelve and White parents of White children age five to twelve. Commonalities and differences were found between the two groups. Both groups of parents believed that children must learn to control their emotions just as they must learn to control their behavior, valued the emotional comfortableness of their children and viewed the ability to identify emotions in his or her self and in others as essential for their children to develop. It was also found that parents of Black children preferred their children to manage and express emotions in a more limited manner. This was in contrast to the views of parents of White children. Therefore, this study found a correlation between culture and parental views of appropriate emotional expression and management development in children.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | May 2014 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Mikell, Dominique |
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| Advisor | Stipek, Deborah |
| Primary advisor | Cohen, Geoff |
Subjects
| Subject | emotional intelligence |
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| Subject | culture |
| Subject | race |
| Subject | children |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Mikell, Dominique and Stipek, Deborah and Cohen, Geoff. (2014). Far From Black and White: The role of Race on Mother’s views of Emotional Intelligence Development in Children. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/pv284yf2310
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Undergraduate Honors Theses, Graduate School of Education
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