Meta-Emotion: How Families Communicate Emotionally

by Lynn Fainsilber Katz, Carole Hooven, John M. Gottman

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805819967
• ISBN13: 9780805819960
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"