Maternal Meta-Emotion Philosophy Across Cultures: How Beijing Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, and European American Mothers Make Sense of Dismissing Children’s Negative Emotions
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Published online on January 13, 2026
Abstract
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Mother’s beliefs about negative emotions (i.e., meta-emotion philosophy) are deeply influential to how they socialize emotions in their children and can vary across cultures. However, existing frameworks of meta-emotion philosophy, such as emotion ...
Mother’s beliefs about negative emotions (i.e., meta-emotion philosophy) are deeply influential to how they socialize emotions in their children and can vary across cultures. However, existing frameworks of meta-emotion philosophy, such as emotion ...