Mothers' Emotions and Behavioral Support During Interactions with Toddlers: The Role of Child Temperament
Mothers' Emotions and Behavioral Support During Interactions with Toddlers: The Role of Child Temperament
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00502.x
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
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2
通讯作者：
Dix, Theodore
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作者：
Bryan, Amy E.;Dix, Theodore
本文探讨了母亲的支持儿童的利益，特别是，母亲的情感过程，可以解释为什么他们显示不同程度的支持与不同气质的儿童。我们观察了114名母亲和他们14-27个月大的孩子在实验室的互动。母亲们从三个方面对孩子的气质进行评估：活跃性、愤怒倾向和社交恐惧。正如预期的那样，活动预测了母亲的愤怒，失望和对孩子兴趣的低支持。社会恐惧预测母亲的担心，低愤怒，低失望，高支持儿童的利益。中介检验证实：（1）母亲的情绪往往在儿童气质与母亲支持行为的关系中起中介作用;（2）儿童的顺从往往在儿童气质与母亲情绪的关系中起中介作用。母亲倾向于报告负面情绪，并显示相对不支持的行为与孩子的气质对应的属性被认为是相对不受欢迎的性别。
This article examines mothers' support for children's interests and, specifically, emotional processes in mothers that may explain why they display different levels of support with children of different temperaments. We observed 114 mothers and their 14-27 month-old children during a laboratory interaction. Mothers rated children on three dimensions of temperament: activity, anger proneness, and social fearfulness. As expected, activity predicted mothers' anger, disappointment, and low support for children's interests. Social fearfulness predicted mothers' worry, low anger, low disappointment, and high support for children's interests. Mediational tests verified that (1) mothers' emotions often mediated the relation of child temperament to mothers' supportive behavior, and (2) children's compliance often mediated the relation of child temperament to mothers' emotions. Mothers tended to report negative emotion and to display relatively unsupportive behavior with children whose temperaments corresponded to attributes considered relatively undesirable for their sex.