The purpose of this study was to examine the relation of mothers'' attitude toward children''s emotion and children''s emotion regulation to children''s social competence.The subjects were 153 children in five to six years of age and their mothers. Mo...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relation of mothers'' attitude toward children''s emotion and children''s emotion regulation to children''s social competence.The subjects were 153 children in five to six years of age and their mothers. Mothers'' attitude toward children''s expressiveness was assessed by translated version(Lee, 2001) of PACES(Saarni, 1990). Children''s emotion regulation was rated by teachers using subfactors, self-control and others-control from the emotional intelligence scale(Lee, 1997). Children''s social competence was assessed by translated version(Kwon, 2003) of SCBE(LaFreniere & Dumas, 1996). The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, Pearson correlations and hierarchial regression.The results of this study can be summarized as follows:First, among mothers'' attitude toward children''s expressiveness, mothers'' attitude toward children''s anger was positively related to children''s social competence. As mothers'' attitude toward children''s anger was more permissive, children'' social competence was higher.Second, children''s emotion regulation was positively related to children''s social competence. As children showed more emotion regulation, children'' social competence was higher.Third, children''s social competence was explained by 76% through mothers'' attitude toward children''s anger, children''s self-control and others-control.In conclusion, it could be an important factor of children'' social competence when mothers'' attitude toward children''s anger was more permissive and children showed more emotion regulation.