Emotion Regulation Among Preschoolers on a Continuum of Risk: The Role of Maternal Emotion Coaching.
Emotion Regulation Among Preschoolers on a Continuum of Risk: The Role of Maternal Emotion Coaching.
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DOI：
10.1007/s10826-013-9752-z
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发表时间：
2014-08
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Fisher PA
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作者：
Ellis BH;Alisic E;Reiss A;Dishion T;Fisher PA
父母的情绪辅导包括承认和验证孩子的感受，以及指导他们如何管理强烈或消极的情绪。虽然父母的情绪辅导已被确定为一个潜在的重要因素，对儿童的情绪发展，这方面的研究很少。本研究旨在探讨母亲情绪辅导是否可以在家庭风险（即经济劣势、家庭压力和虐待）与幼儿情绪调节之间发挥中介作用。74名年龄在46-58个月的学龄前儿童和他们的母亲照顾者参加了一项观察性实验室研究，包括一项叙述任务，其中母亲和孩子回忆了一件轻微的令人不安的事件。我们用家庭情感沟通评分系统对这些对话进行编码，以了解母亲的情感教练行为。通过家庭事件清单和人口统计学数据获得家庭风险评分。采用情绪调节量表测量儿童的情绪调节能力。家庭风险增加与儿童情绪调节减少和母亲情绪辅导减少有关。母亲情绪辅导部分中介了家庭风险与儿童情绪调节，尤其是儿童情绪不稳定之间的关系。研究结果支持进一步研究的可能性，培训母亲在高风险家庭的情绪辅导技能，以促进他们的孩子的情绪发展。
Parental emotion coaching involves acknowledging and validating children’s feelings, as well as guiding them on how to manage intense or negative feelings. Although parental emotion coaching has been identified as a potentially important factor for children’s emotional development, research into this topic is scant. The present study examined whether maternal emotion coaching can play a mediational role between family risk (i.e. economic disadvantage, family stress, and maltreatment) and emotion regulation in preschoolers. Seventy-four preschoolers, aged 46–58 months, and their maternal caregivers participated in an observational laboratory study, including a narrative task in which mothers and children reminisced about a mildly upsetting event. We coded these conversations for maternal emotion coaching behaviors with the Family Emotional Communication Scoring System. A family risk score was obtained via the Family Events Checklist and demographic data. We measured children’s emotion regulation with the Emotion Regulation Checklist. Increased family risk was associated with both reduced child emotion regulation and reduced maternal emotion coaching. Maternal emotion coaching partially mediated the relation between family risk and child emotion regulation, in particular child emotional lability. The findings support further research into the possibilities of training mothers in high risk families in emotion coaching skills in order to foster their children’s emotional development.