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Parents Dealing with the Expression of Sadness by their Children

2016; Universidade de São Francisco; Volume: 21; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/1413-82712016210110

2175-3563

Tamara Elen Duarte, Bruna Franco Leite Brito, Aline Henriques Reis,

Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Abstract Objectives: Identifying sadness inductors on children according to parents' perception; checking strategies of emotion regulation used by parents before children's sadness; comparing the ways mothers and fathers deal with children's sadness. Participants: 26 heterosexual couples (Average age = 37 years old), at least two children from six up to twelve years old, one boy and one girl. Delineation: collective case study. Instruments: General data questionnaire; Econômica Brasil qualification criteria; The questions were: "What usually upsets your child?"; "Tell me a situation which made your son sad."; "What did you do in this situation?"; stimulus-story. Outcome: fathers tend to punish sons and daughters when they are sad and replace something lost; mothers minimize it, i. e., reduce the importance of child's reaction, or the problem that caused it. Reaction centered in the problem was the most used by father and mother before children's sadness.