Pathways to behavior problems in Norwegian kindergarten children: The role of parent emotion socialization and child emotion understanding
| Autor: | Francisco Pons, Evalill Karevold, Rune Flaaten Bjørk, Sophie S. Havighurst |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Parents Coping (psychology) Emotions Child Behavior 050109 social psychology Norwegian 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Process analysis Emotion comprehension Adaptation Psychological Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Problem Behavior Norway Emotion socialization 05 social sciences Socialization Cognition General Medicine Mental health language.human_language Comprehension Child Preschool language Female Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian journal of psychologyReferences. 61(6) |
| ISSN: | 1467-9450 |
| Popis: | More than two decades of research have shown that parental emotion-related socialization behaviors (ERSBs) significantly predict child emotion understanding and externalizing behavior problems. This study aimed to replicate these findings in a sample of 40 Norwegian preschool children and to test whether the effect of parental ERSBs on externalizing child behavior problems was mediated through child emotion understanding. Parental report on ERSBs was obtained using the Coping with Children's Negative Emotions Scale (CCNES) questionnaire. Child emotion understanding was assessed directly using the Test of Emotion Comprehension (TEC). The results showed that parental distress reactions and externalizing child behavior problems were significantly correlated and that parental expressive encouragement was significantly correlated with child emotion understanding. Estimation of indirect effects was conducted using process analysis and showed that parental expressive encouragement was indirectly related to externalizing child behavior problems (b = -0.17) via child emotion understanding. The results suggest that better child emotion understanding, and lower parental distress are related to lower levels of behavior problems in preschool children. These findings provide support for the Parental Meta-Emotion Philosophy (PMEP) model, where the effect of parental emotion socialization on externalizing child behavior problems is mediated through emotion understanding. |
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