TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES …………………………………………………………………………………………….. iv
LIST OF TABLES ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. v
ABSTRACT ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. vi
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………………………… 1
Emotion Socialization, Emotional Intelligence, and Distress ………………………………… 2
CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW …………………………………………………………………. 4
Emotion Socialization ………………………………………………………………………………………. 4
Socialization Strategies ……………………………………………………………………………….. 7
Supportive Strategies. …………………………………………………………………………….. 7
Non-Supportive Strategies. ……………………………………………………………………… 8
Socialization and Distress …………………………………………………………………………………. 9
Emotional Intelligence ……………………………………………………………………………………. 11
Functions. ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 13
Forms. ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 14
Emotion Recognition. …………………………………………………………………………… 15
Emotion Recognition and Distress. …………………………………………………………. 17
Emotion Regulation. …………………………………………………………………………….. 18
Emotion Regulation and Distress. …………………………………………………………… 21
Emotion Socialization and Emotional Intelligence …………………………………………….. 22
Emerging Adults……………………………………………………………………………………….. 24
Current Study ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 25
Hypotheses ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 25
Directional Hypothesis. …………………………………………………………………………. 25
Mediation Hypothesis. ………………………………………………………………………….. 26
CHAPTER 3. METHODS …………………………………………………………………………………… 27
Participants …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 27
Procedures ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 28
Measures ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 30
Emotion Socialization ……………………………………………………………………………….. 30
Emotional Intelligence ………………………………………………………………………………. 31
Emotion Recognition. …………………………………………………………………………… 32
Emotion Regulation. …………………………………………………………………………….. 33
Psychological Distress ……………………………………………………………………………….. 34
CHAPTER 4. RESULTS …………………………………………………………………………………….. 35
Data Preparation and Cleaning ………………………………………………………………………… 35
Preliminary Analyses ……………………………………………………………………………………… 36
Descriptive Statistics …………………………………………………………………………………. 36
Model Analyses …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 37
CHAPTER 5. DISCUSSION ……………………………………………………………………………….. 42
Limitations and Future Directions ……………………………………………………………………. 46
Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 51
REFERENCES ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 52