Meta-Emotion: How Families Communicate Emotionally (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780805819960)

This book describes research on the emotional communication between parents and children and its effect on the children's emotional development. Inspired by the work, and dedicated to the memory of Dr. Haim Ginott, it presents the results of initial exploratory work with meta-emotion--feelings about feelings. The initial study of meta-emotion generated some theory and made it possible to propose a research agenda. Clearly replication is necessary, and experiments are needed to test the path analytic models which have been developed from the authors' correlational data. The authors hope that other researchers will find these ideas interesting and stimulating, and will inspire investigation in this exciting new area of a family's emotional life.


Author: John Mordechai Gottman, Lynn Fainsilber Katz, Carole Hooven
ISBN-10: 0805819967
ISBN-13: 9780805819960
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1997
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.01w x 0.79d