The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between mother's acceptance attitude toward negative emotion and children's anger expression mode. Participants were 355 children aged 11 to 13 and their mothers. They were recruited from 2 pub...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between mother's acceptance attitude toward negative emotion and children's anger expression mode. Participants were 355 children aged 11 to 13 and their mothers. They were recruited from 2 public elementary school in Seoul, 3 public elementary school in Gyeonggi-do. The Coping with Children's Negative Emotions Scale developed by Kim (1995) was used to assess mother's acceptance attitude toward negative emotion. The State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-K by Hong & Kwak(2008) was used to assess children's anger expression mode.
Data were analyzed using Cronbach's Alphas, frequencies, percentiles, means, standard deviations, two-way ANOVAs, Pearson's correlations, and Simultaneous multiple regression.
The major findings were as follows:
1. When the differences in mother's acceptance attitude were compared by gender and birth order, there were significant differences. The mother group had daughters reported significantly higher Problem-Focused Reaction than the mother group had sons.
2. When the differences in children's anger expression mode were compared by gender and birth order, there was no significant gender difference. But there were significant differences in birth order. The eldest child group reported significantly higher anger-in than only child group. More specially, the eldest son group reported significantly higher anger-in than only child son group.
3. Mother's acceptance attitude toward negative emotion was related to children's anger expression mode. Emotion-focused reaction was positively associated with anger-control and negatively associated with anger-out. Minimization reaction and expressive encouragement were positively associated with anger-in.
4. Emotion-focused reaction and children's birth order were significant predictor of anger-control. They explained 3.0% of children's anger-control. Next, expressive encourage and minimization reaction were significant predictor of anger-in, and explained 3.0% of variance in children's anger-in.