Citation

Peterson C, Sales JM, Rees M, Fivush R. Appl. Cogn. Psychol. 2007; 21(8): 1057-1075.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/acp.1314

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The relationship between parents' styles of talking about past events with their children and children's recall of stressful events was explored. In this investigation, 2- to 5-year-old children's recall of injuries requiring hospital emergency room treatment was assessed within a few days of the injury and again 2 years later, along with the way their parents reminisced with them about the event. Correlational analyses showed that age and parental reminiscing style were consistently related to child memory; regression analyses showed that although age was most important, parents who were more elaborative had children who recalled more during their initial interview about the harder-to-remember hospital event. Thus, an elaborative parental style may help children's recall of even highly salient and stressful events. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Language: en