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Children's Social Withdrawal in Relation to Mothers' Reactions to Children's Negative Emotion and Mothers' Emotional Expressivity

유아의 사회적 위축성과 관련된 자녀의 부정적 정서에 대한 어머니의 반응 및 정서표현성

  • Kwon, Yeon-Hee (Department of Early Childhood Education, Pukyong National University)
  • 권연희 (부경대학교 유아교육과)
  • Received : 2012.04.30
  • Accepted : 2012.06.18
  • Published : 2012.08.30
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Abstract

This study examined the effects of mothers' reactions toward children's negative emotion as well as mothers' emotional expressivity on children's social withdrawal. 206 children (103 boys, 103 girls; aged 4-5 years old) and their mothers participated in the study. Mothers reported their reactions to their child's negative emotion along with their expressivity. The teachers completed a rating scale to measure children's social withdrawal. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson's productive correlation coefficient, and hierarchical multiple regressions. The results showed a relation between mothers' distress reactions and punitive responses and children's social withdrawal. A mother's positive expressivity was negatively related to a child's social withdrawal. A hierarchical regression analysis indicated that the effects of mothers' punitive responses and minimization responses on children's withdrawal were moderated by a mother's positive expressivity. Mothers' punitive responses and minimization responses were positively associated with children's social withdrawal, especially for children who had the lowest level of mother's positive expressivity.

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