Mothers' self-reported control of their preschool children's emotional expressiveness: A longitudinal study of associations with infant-mother attachment and children's emotion regulation
Mothers' self-reported control of their preschool children's emotional expressiveness: A longitudinal study of associations with infant-mother attachment and children's emotion regulation
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10.1111/1467-9507.00244
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发表时间：
2003-01-01
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2
通讯作者：
Cassidy, J
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作者：
Berlin, LJ;Cassidy, J
在目前的纵向研究中，我们考察了母亲对学龄前儿童情绪表达的自我报告控制与早期社会情绪发展的另外两个关键方面：母婴依恋质量和儿童情绪调节之间的关系。76名白人学龄前儿童(46名男孩和30名女孩)和他们的母亲参加了实验。主要的评估包括父母对儿童表达能力的态度量表(Pace；Saarni，1985)、婴儿奇怪的情况，以及为这项研究设计的一种测量工具--Beat the Bell，旨在引发孩子在母亲面前表达、分享和压抑情绪。母亲对孩子表达能力的控制与依恋和孩子情绪调节在理论上预测的方式有关。首先，与其他母亲相比，被归类为不安全-回避儿童的母亲报告说他们的孩子比其他母亲更能控制孩子的负面表达，而被归类为不安全-矛盾儿童的母亲报告说比其他母亲对孩子的负面表达控制更少。其次，报告称对孩子的表达控制能力更强的母亲所生的孩子不太可能表达和分享自己的感受，更有可能在“敲钟”情绪调节评估中抑制愤怒。研究结果从母亲情绪社会化在儿童早期社会情绪发展中的作用方面进行了讨论。
In the present longitudinal study we examined the associations between mothers' self-reported control of their preschoolers' emotional expressiveness and two other key facets of early socioemotional development: the quality of the infant-mother attachment and children emotion regulation. Seventy-six white preschool-aged children (46 boys and 30 girls) and their mothers participated. Principal assessments included the Parent Attitude Toward Child Expressiveness Scale (PACES; Saarni, 1985), the infant Strange Situation, and 'Beat the Bell,'a measure designed for this study to elicit children emotional expression, sharing, and suppression in the presence of their mothers. Mothers' control of their children expressiveness was associated with both attachment and children emotion regulation in theoretically predicted ways. First, mothers of children who had been classified insecure-avoidant in the Strange Situation reported greater control of their children negative expressiveness than other mothers, and mothers of children who had been classified insecure-ambivalent reported less control of their children negative expressiveness than other mothers. Second, mothers who reported greater control of their children expressiveness had children who were less likely to express and share their feelings and more likely to suppress their anger in the 'Beat the Bell' emotion regulation assessment. Findings are discussed in terms of the role of maternal emotion socialization in children early socioemotional development.