This study investigated the relation between preschoolers? emotion understanding and parents? emotion expressiveness and attitude toward children?s emotion expressiveness. Subjects were ninety 3- to 5-year old children and their parents. Parents? emot...
This study investigated the relation between preschoolers? emotion understanding and parents? emotion expressiveness and attitude toward children?s emotion expressiveness. Subjects were ninety 3- to 5-year old children and their parents. Parents? emotion socialization was measured by PACES developed by Saarni(1989) and FEQ developed by Harberstadt(1986). And preschoolers? identification of basic emotional expressions and expression of their own feelings and others? feelings in various situations were measured. Results revealed that 5-year-old children understood emotion better than 3-year-old children, and mother?s positive emotion expression influenced children?s emotion understanding. The results are consistent with recent research showing that parents emotion socialization may be important for preschoolers? emotion understanding.주제어(Key Words): 학령전 아동의 정서이해(preschoolers? emotion understanding), 부모의 정서표현성(parents? emotion expressiveness), 부모의 아동정서 수용태도(parents? attitude toward children?s emotion expressiveness)