Predicting mother and child emotional availability in Singaporean bilingual English and Mandarin dyads : a multilevel approach to the specificity principle

• Main Authors: Esposito, Gianluca, Raghunath, Bindiya Lakshmi, Azhari, Atiqah, Setoh, Peipei, Bornstein, Marc H.
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Mother-child Emotional Availability; HRV Synchrony
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146723
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When interacting with one another, bilingual caregivers and their young bilingual children can switch from one language to another to convey emotion and information in meaningful ways. The Specificity Principle (Bornstein, 2017) states that specific setting conditions affect specific outcomes in spe...