This study explored father’s emotional expressiveness and response styles to the negative emotional expression of children as developmental determinants of child’s ambivalence over emotional expression. 350 sixth-grade children were targeted to do...
This study explored father’s emotional expressiveness and response styles to the negative emotional expression of children as developmental determinants of child’s ambivalence over emotional expression. 350 sixth-grade children were targeted to do a survey by using SEFQ as a measure of father’s emotional expressiveness, CCNES as a measure of father’s response styles to the negative emotional expression of children, AEQ-K as a measure of ambivalence over emotional expression. 267 final data (83 data were eliminated) were analyzed by using multiple regression analysis to prove the correlation and ENTER according to the research question.
The results of this study are summarized as below.
First, father’s emotional expressiveness and response styles to the negative emotional expression of children are significant related to ambivalence over emotional expression of children. Positive emotion expression of father is positive correlated to self-defensive ambivalence of children, and negative emotion expression is positive correlated to self-defensive ambivalence and relation-concerned ambivalence of children.Father’s non-supportive response (physiological distress, punishment, and minimization) to the negative emotional expression of children is positive correlated to the self-defensive ambivalence and relation-concerned ambivalence of children. Second, negative emotion expression of father is positive correlated to the self-defensive ambivalence and relation-concerned ambivalence of children. Third, father’s punishment response to the negative emotional expression of children is positive correlated to the self-defensive ambivalence and relation-concerned ambivalence of children. Fourth, according to review the relative impact between sub-variables of father’s emotional expressiveness and response styles to the negative emotional expression and ambivalence over emotional expression of children, father’s punishment response has a major impact on the ambivalence over emotional expression of children and father’s negative emotion expression is the next. Also, father’s punishment response has the most significant effect on children’s relation-concerned ambivalence.
As a result, father’s emotional expressiveness and response styles to the negative emotional expression of children are associated with ambivalence over emotional expression of children. Moreover, father’s punishment response has the most significant effect on ambivalence over emotional expression of children.