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This research incorporates the sociology of emotions into the study of parenting by examining the theoretical relationship between the mother identity and mothers' emotional response of jealousy to father-child interactions. Using identity theory, we predict that in response to father-child interactions, mothers with a more prominent mother identity will report the emotional experience of jealousy, and mothers with a more salient mother identity will report coping strategies designed to reduce the jealous experience. Since prominence captures the affective dimension of an identity, it should be tied to one's emotional response in a situation. Further, while salience captures the behavioral dimension of an identity, it should be related to the coping strategies which follow from and manage one's emotional response in a situation. The results confirm these expected relationships. We discuss not only how emotion may serve to maintain the mother identity, but also how mothers' emotion may unintentionally serve to maintain social structural arrangements with respect to parenting.

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