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Effects of Mother's Emotional Expressiveness and Reaction to Child Negative Emotions on Child Emotional Intelligence

어머니의 정서표현성과 부정적 정서표현에 대한 반응이 아동의 정서지능에 미치는 영향

  • Kang, Hyun Jee (Department of Human Ecology, Korea University Graduate School) ;
  • Lim, Jungha (Department of Home Economics Education, Korea University College of Education)
  • 강현지 (고려대학교 대학원 생활과학과) ;
  • 임정하 (고려대학교 가정교육과)
  • Received : 2014.09.16
  • Accepted : 2014.12.14
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

This study examines child emotional intelligence in relation to mother's emotional expressiveness and reaction to child negative emotions. A sample of 352 children and mothers from 4 elementary schools in Seoul and Gyeonggi participated in the study. Child emotional intelligence and mother's reaction to child negative emotions were evaluated by child-report, and mother's emotional expressiveness was assessed by mother-report. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, two-way analysis of variances, Pearson's correlation and multiple regression analyses. The findings were as follows. First, mothers of boys showed more oversensitive-reaction to child negative emotions than mothers of girls. Mothers of 6th-graders showed more emotion-minimizin-greaction to child negative emotions than mothers of 5th-graders. Second, girls showed a higher level of overall emotional intelligence than boys. Girls showed a higher level of emotion expression and emotion regulation than boys. The 5th-graders showed higher level of emotion expression than 6th-graders; however, 6th graders showed a higher level of emotion perception than 5th-graders. Third, more emotion-coaching-reaction and less oversensitive-reaction by mothers predicted a better emotional intelligence of children. A mother's appropriate emotional socialization behaviors associated with child emotional intelligence were discussed.

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