Meta-Emotion: How Families Communicate Emotionally Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction to the Concept of Meta-Emotion	3
Ch. 1	Research on Parenting and Meta-Emotions	9
Ch. 2	Popular Parenting Guides: Introducing Ginott	14
App. 2.1	Life Space Interviewing in More Detail	35
Ch. 3	The Selection of Development Outcomes	39
Ch. 4	The Meta-Emotion Interview	45
Ch. 5	An "Emotion Regulation Theory" of Meta-Emotion, Parenting, and Child Outcomes	86
App. 5.1	How Specifically Might Meta-Emotion and Parenting Affect a Child's Development?	106
App. 5.2	Necessary Concepts From Child Physiology: A Brief Review of Research	117
Ch. 6	Designing a Family Psychophysiology Laboratory: The Methods of Our Study	123
App. 6.1	More Detail on Measures and Coding	132
Ch. 7	The Internal Structure of Parents' Meta-Emotions	140
Ch. 8	Validity of the Meta-Emotion Interview	143
Ch. 9	Parenting, Parental Meta-Emotions, and the Child's Peer Relations	149
Ch. 10	Parenting, Parental Meta-Emotions, and the Physical Health and Negative Affectivity of Children	152
Ch. 11	Parenting, Parental Meta-Emotions, and Childrens' Academic Achievement at Age 8	155
Ch. 12	How Might Meta-Emotions Have Their Effects? Preliminary Tests of Our Theory	163
Ch. 13	Parenting, Meta-Emotion, and the Parents' Marriage	190
Ch. 14	The Effects of Marital Conflict and Buffering Children From Marital Conflict	214
Ch. 15	Meta-Emotion and Gender	229
Ch. 16	When Parents Feel Emotionally Out of Control	236
Ch. 17	Meta-Emotion, Emotional Expressiveness, and Parental Social Class	259
App. 17.1	Vagal Tone and the Inhibition of Expressiveness	268
App. 17.2	Child Temperament	270
Ch. 18	Discussion and a Research Agenda	272
Ch. 19	Emotion Metaphors	306
App. A	Methodology for the Vagal Tone Computations	323
	References	333
	Author Index	355
	Subject Index	360