The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between parenting attitudes perceived by their children, parents' emotional expressiveness and children's emotional intelligence. In addition, another purpose is to understand the emotional ...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between parenting attitudes perceived by their children, parents' emotional expressiveness and children's emotional intelligence. In addition, another purpose is to understand the emotional intelligence.
The Subjects were consisted of 275 middle school students and their parents. The research instruments used for this study were Parental Attitudes Scale(Kim, 1984), Emotional Intelligence Test(Moon, 1997), and Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire (King & Emmons, 1990).
The present paper focused on the three types of parenting attitudes and emotional expressiveness respectively. The former is 'acceptance', 'autonomy', and 'over-expectation'. The latter is 'positive', 'intimate', and 'negative emotional expressiveness'. Also, this paper classified the emotional intelligence by five types; 'perception', 'expression', 'regulation', 'application of emotion', and 'empathy'.
The results of this study are as follows:
First, parent's acceptable parenting attitude had some effects on children's emotional intelligence development. Particularly, in case that children perceived parents' acceptable parenting attitude there was signifant positive correlation with son's emotional intelligence. Also, as children perceived mother's autonomical parenting attitude, they recognized their emotion well and expressed their emotion more freely. When mother expected children's achievement excessively, negative correlation was found in daughter's emotional expression and application.
Second, When father often represented positive emotional expression, it took effect on daughter's emotional intelligence.
Third, When father expressed emotion intimately and positively, father's parenting attitude was perceived acceptably by children.