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The Effects of Mothers' Emotion Expression on Preschool Children's Emotion Regulation : Focusing on the Mediation of Children's Temperament

어머니의 정서표현이 유아의 정서조절에 미치는 영향 : 기질의 매개효과를 중심으로

  • Kim, Jung Min (Seoul National University Zelkova Center for Child Educare Service and Research) ;
  • Kim, Jihyun (Department of Child Development & Education, Myongji University)
  • Received : 2014.03.14
  • Accepted : 2014.06.10
  • Published : 2014.06.30
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Abstract

The aims of this study were to investigate the relationships among mothers' emotion expression, preschool children's temperament, and preschool children's emotion regulation. The participants in this study were 75 5-year-old children from five child-care centers located in Seoul. The collected data were analyzed using simple regression and hierarchical multiple regression. The major findings were as follows. First, mothers' positive emotion expression had a positive influence on children's effortful control, and mothers' negative emotion expression had a positive influence on children's negative affect. Second, mothers' positive emotion expression had a positive influence on children's emotion regulation, while mothers' negative emotion expression had a negative influence on children's emotion regulation. Last, the effect of mothers' positive emotion expression on children's emotion regulation was fully mediated by children's effortful control. Also, the effect of mothers' negative emotion expression on children's emotion regulation was partially mediated by children's negative affect. These results suggest that mothers' emotion expression and children's temperament may predict children's emotion regulation.

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