The purposes of this study were as follows;
Firstly, it was to investigate an influence of maternal socialization behaviors of emotions such as parenting behaviors, emotional expressiveness and reactions on children's competence and strategies of emot...
The purposes of this study were as follows;
Firstly, it was to investigate an influence of maternal socialization behaviors of emotions such as parenting behaviors, emotional expressiveness and reactions on children's competence and strategies of emotion regulation.
Secondly, it was to examine a relation between children's strategies and competence of emotion regulation.
Thirdly, it's to set a hypothetical path model and to analyze a direct/indirect relational path to find out mediating effects of children's active·social support seeking and aggressive strategies on an influence of maternal socialization behaviors of emotions on children's competence of emotion regulation.
The subjects were 607 pairs of 5 to 6 grade students and mothers of two elementary schools in Kyunggi province and Kwangju metropolitan city.
It's to set maternal parenting behaviors, emotional expressiveness, reaction type and children's strategies of emotion regulation be rated by the children themselves and children's competence of emotion regulation by mothers.
The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, factor analysis, Cronbach's Pearson correlations, standard multiple regressions and structural equation modeling analysis by LISREL 8.3.
The results of this study were as follows;
Firstly, maternal parenting behaviors had an influence on children's competence and strategies of emotion regulation. The more mothers coached children with affection and reason, the more adaptive emotion regulation children had, while the more maladaptive emotion regulation child had against mothers' rejective and forceful parenting behaviors. Also, when children were coached by mothers with love, reason and consistent restriction, they used more active·social support seeking strategy, while they used more aggressive strategy when mothers coached children with rejective and forceful parenting behaviors. The more mothers were rejective, forceful and not noninterventional, the more children passive·avoidant strategy.
Fifthly, children's active·social support seeking strategy and aggressive strategy mediated the relation between maternal socialization behaviors of emotions and children's competence of emotion regulation.
Children's active·social support seeking strategy played a partial mediating role between mothers' affectionate and resonable coaching, positive emotional expressiveness and supportive reaction type and children's adaptive emotion regulation, while a full mediating role between mothers' consistent restriction and children's adaptive emotion regulation.
Children's aggressive strategy played a partial mediating role between mothers' rejective·forceful parenting behaviors and negative emotional expressiveness and children's maladaptive emotion regulation, while a full mediating role between mothers' non-supportive reactions and children's maladaptive emotion regulation. Mothers' irresponsibility was not influential on both children's aggressive strategy and maladaptive emotion regulation.
Secondly, maternal emotional expressiveness had a significant influence on children's competence and strategies of emotion regulation. The more mothers had a positive emotional expressiveness, the more children used active·social support seeking strategy and had adaptive emotion regulation, while children used aggressive and passive·avoidant strategy along with maladaptive emotion regulation against mothers' negative emotional expressiveness.
Thirdly, maternal reactions had a partly significant influence on children's competence and strategies of emotion regulation. The more mothers reacted supportively, namely, the more mothers were helpful for children to solve a problem, respected their emotions and encouraged their emotions when they had a negative emotional expressiveness, the more children used active·social support seeking strategy and had adaptive emotion regulation. On the other hand, the less mothers reacted supportively, namely, the more mothers underestimated children's emotions, was destressed and punished children, the more children used passive·avoidant and aggressive strategies. It was not directly influential on children's maladaptive emotion regulation regardless they had a non-supportive or supportive reaction type.
Forthly, the more children used active·social support seeking strategy and the less children aggressive strategy, the more they had an adaptive emotion regulation, and the more children used aggressive strategy, the more they had a maladaptive emotion regulation. Children's passive
avoidant strategies were not influential on children's adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation.