어머니의 정서관련 양육신념과 어머니가 지각한 유아의 정서조절의 관계에서 어머니 정서표현의 매개효과

• Published in: Korean Journal of child studies Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 1 - 18
• Main Authors: 최혜정(Hye Jeong Choi), 이동귀(Dong Gwi Lee)
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 한국아동학회 2015
• Subjects: 생활과학; parental beliefs; 양육신념; parental beliefs about emotion; emotional expressiveness; emotional regulation; 정서표현; 정서관련 양육신념; 정서조절
• ISSN: 1226-1688; 2234-408X
• DOI: 10.5723/KJCS.2015.36.3.1

This study tested the relationship between mothers' beliefs about their children's emotions and the children's emotional regulation, using the mothers' positive and negative emotional expressiveness as mediators. The participants comprised 511 mothers with children whose ages ranged from 3 to 5 years, from 11 early childhood educational institutions located in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. The survey data were analyzed using the SPSS 21.0, AMOS 21.0 and Mplus 6.12 programs. The main results were as follows. First, there were significant correlations among the three variables (i.e., mothers' beliefs about their children's emotions, the children's emotional regulation, and the mothers' emotional expressiveness). Second, both the mothers' beliefs about their children's emotions and the mothers' emotional expressiveness predicted in a significant manner the children's degree of emotional regulation. Third, the mediating effects of the mothers' emotional expressiveness were found to be significant. This indicated that the mothers' emotional expressiveness can be one means by which their children's emotional regulation can be increased, and this needs to be taken into account when designing educational and counseling programs.