LOVE ME TENDER: THE ROLE OF VERBALLY CODED EMOTIONS ON NONVERBALLY CODED EMOTIONS IN MOTHER-CHILD REMINISCING AND PLAY CONTEXTS

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2025-2-7

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Dicle Züm, Burcu

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The current study aimed to investigate the role of mothers’ verbal use of emotions on children’s and mothers’ affectionate physical touching behavior in two distinct yet similar socialization tasks: play, and reminiscing. Mothers’ attachment styles were also integrated into the design to capture individual differences. The study is conducted under the scope of a scientific research project supported by the Middle East Technical University Scientific Research Projects (SRP; coded BAP – 08 – 11 – 2013 – 074), with the participation of ninety-five mothers and their children between 45 and 73 in months of age. Dyads were invited to the Child and Adolescent Development Laboratory (Çegel) located at the METU campus, and were asked to reminisce about a shared past event (reminiscing: 10 minutes) and then asked to play together with toys of building blocks (play: 10 minutes). Tasks were audio-recorded and videotaped simultaneously. Mothers reported their romantic attachment style via Experiences in Close Relationships Revised (ECR-R) developed by Fraley et al. (2000). The data was analyzed using descriptive analyses and hierarchical regressions depending on the hypotheses. Results showed that maternal positive emotion words were predictive of mothers’ affectionate touching behavior in both tasks, and of children’s affectionate touching behavior only in the reminiscing task. Maternal romantic attachment did not significantly explain any variance over and above the predictive role of emotion words, nor the control variables of mothers’ age, children’s age, or gender. Overall, the findings of the current thesis supported the emotion socialization and physical affection in parent-child interactions literature. The findings were discussed in light of previous literature, underlining the implications, contributions, limitations, and suggestions for future studies.

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mother-child reminiscing, play, emotion words, affective touching behavior, maternal romantic attachment, anne-çocuk geçmiş yaşantı konuşmaları, oyun, duygu kelimeleri, duygusal dokunma davranışı, annenin romantik bağlanması

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/113471

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis