Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association (대한가정학회지)

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The influence of children's and mothers' emotional expressiveness in mother-child interaction settings on children's social competence

모자 상호작용에서 정서 표현성이 아동의 사회 능력에 미치는 영향

  • Song, Ha-Na (Department of Child Psychology and Education Sungkyunkwan Univ.) ;
  • Choi, Kyoung-Sook (Department of Child Psychology and Education Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
  • Published : 2006.11.30
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Abstract

This study examined the influence of mothers' and children's emotional expressiveness on children's social competence. Sixty-five kindergarten children and their mothers were observed in a lab setting which included 5 free play and 5 task episodes. The children's and mothers' behaviors during these episodes were videotaped and rated by two coders in terms of emotional expressiveness, sociability to others, ability to regulate frustration, compliance, and autonomy. Intercoder reliability between the two coders for each behavioral category ranged from .84 to .99. The results showed that children's social competence was significantly influenced by their positive expressiveness, indicating that children with higher expressiveness were more sociable to others and less frustrated in a stressful situation. Significant relationships were also found between mothers' and children's negative expressiveness, and children's compliance and autonomy. In particular, the consistency between mothers' and children's levels of negative expressiveness significantly predicted the children's compliance and autonomy. The socialization of emotion between mothers and children was discussed, as was the relationship between emotional and social competence. Suggestions for future study were also presented.

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