Maternal Meta-Emotion Philosophy Across Cultures: How Beijing Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, and European American Mothers Make Sense of Dismissing Children's Negative Emotions

• DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/q56ab_v1
• Publication Date: 2025-04-14T17:15:58Z
• Authors: Meingold Hiu-ming...; Xin Feng; Zhenlin Wang; Li Wang
• Keywords: Chinese culture

Mother’s beliefs about negative emotions (i.e., meta-emotion philosophy) are deeply influential to how they socialize in their children and can differ across cultures. However, framework of philosophy, such as emotion coaching dismissing, was developed based on minority world population, including European Americans. The current study took an emic approach explore the philosophy three cultural groups, two groups Chinese mothers (living Hong Kong Beijing) American Midwest United States expand our knowledge socialization diverse groups. Specifically, we investigated these cultures made sense dismissing philosophy. We analyzed thirty mothers’ responses a interview (ten from each groups) thematically identified four themes, “For own good”: Training avoiding perceived social judgement, trapped vicious circle, effective ending inconvenience. Implication themes were discussed context MEP well independence interdependence models. Overall, present qualitative highlighted importance investigating applicability frameworks Americans other