Purpose of this study was to investigate the young children's emotional coping strategies according to parents' emotional expressiveness and empathy. Subjects of this study were 301 mothers and 291 fathers who had young children from 3 to 5 year-old a...
Purpose of this study was to investigate the young children's emotional coping strategies according to parents' emotional expressiveness and empathy. Subjects of this study were 301 mothers and 291 fathers who had young children from 3 to 5 year-old attending to 10 kindergartens located in Chungbuk area and their 301 young children. Data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, Primary factor analysis, Cronbach's α, Three way ANOVA with Scheffe post-hoc test using SPSS 12.0 program.
The results of this study were as follows:
First, children's aggressive strategy turned out to be different depending on gender and age of the children and the level of the mother's negative emotional expressiveness. The interaction effect between the gender of the children and the mothers’ positive emotional expressiveness was also found to be significant.
Second, children's emotional release strategy were found to be different depending on age. The interaction effect between the gender of the children and the fathers’ negative emotional expressiveness and the interaction effect between the age of the children and the father’s emotional empathy were also found to be significant.
Third, children's avoidance strategy and the support strategy turned out to be different depending on the age of the children and the levels of empathic interest of the fathers. The interaction effect between the gender of the children and the mothers’ negative emotional expressiveness and the interaction effect between the age of the children and the fathers’ emotional empathy were also found to be significant.
Fourth, children's no-strategy were found to be different depending on the gender and the age of the children. Boys participated in no-strategy more than the girls and the children at the age of three and five chose the no-strategy more frequently than those children at the age of four.