Preschoolers’ Emotional Understanding and Psychosocial Adjustment in Korea: The Moderating Effect of Maternal Attitude towards Emotional Expressiveness
| Autor: | Yookyung Eoh, Ji Hyun Lee, Ansuk Jeong, Soo Hyun Park |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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05 social sciences
Socialization 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Key factors Emotional reaction Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Emotional expression Social competence Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology Emotional exhaustion Psychosocial 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child and Family Studies. 26:1854-1864 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2843 1062-1024 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10826-017-0703-y |
| Popis: | The purpose of the present study was to examine the role of maternal attitude towards children’s emotional expressiveness in Korean preschoolers’ emotional understanding and psychosocial adjustment. Preschoolers (N = 70) participated in an emotional understanding task comprised of identifying cartoon character’s emotional reaction to particular emotion-eliciting situations. Maternal attitude towards children’s emotional expressiveness, as well as teachers’ rating of children’s behavior problems and social competence were measured. Children’s emotional understanding was negatively correlated with teacher-reported behavior problems and positively associated with social competence. In line with recent research on the socialization of emotional expressiveness, controlling maternal attitude towards children’s positive emotional expressiveness was negatively correlated with teacher-reported behavior problems. Conversely, mothers’ accepting attitude towards children’s negative emotional expressiveness was also negatively correlated with behavior problems. Finally, maternal attitude toward children’s positive emotional expressiveness moderated the relationship between emotional understanding ability and behavior problems and social competence. Such findings suggest that maternal attitude, particularly attitude regarding specific type of emotional expressiveness, is one of the key factors that may predict preschooler’s psychosocial outcomes. |
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