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Study of Parental Reactions to a Child's Negative Emotions

유아의 부정적 정서에 대한 부모의 반응에 관한 연구

  • Chung, Myoung-Ja (Dep. of early childhood education, Gwangshin University.Jeonnam education information center) ;
  • Lim, You-Kyoung (Dep. of early childhood education, Gwangshin University.Jeonnam education information center) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Rye (Dep. of early childhood education, Gwangshin University.Jeonnam education information center)
  • 정명자 (광신대학교 유아교육학과.전남보육정보센터) ;
  • 임유경 (광신대학교 유아교육학과.전남보육정보센터) ;
  • 김동례 (광신대학교 유아교육학과.전남보육정보센터)
  • Received : 2011.11.09
  • Accepted : 2011.12.11
  • Published : 2011.12.31
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the difference of the father's and mother's reactions to their children's negative emotions, relations among the children's variables, parent's variables, and parent's reactions. The subjects selected were 183 mothers and 183 fathers with children aged three to five-years-old, from a childcare center and kindergarten in Kwang-ju. Parental emotion-related practices regarding children's negative emotions were assessed with an adaptation of the CCNES(Fabes et al, 1990) that was modified by Kim Hee-Jung(1994). Descriptives, Pearson's correlation coefficient, were used for data analysis by using the SPSS 15.0 program. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: First, fathers and mothers used more positive reactions than negative reactions when their children showed negative emotions. The mothers were significantly higher than fathers on encouragement of expression, punitive, and distress reactions. Second, the children's age and gender, parent's age, level of education and income were negatively and positively correlated to the father's and mother's reactions to their children's negative emotions.

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