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KMID : 1022520070110020001
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Journal of Play Therapy
2007 Volume.11 No. 2 p.1 ~ p.15
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A Study on the relation between mothers’ childhood experiences, mother’s attitude toward children’s emotional expressiveness and preschoolers’ emotional ability to preschoolers’ peer competence
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Kim Eun-Kyoung
Song Young-Hye
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Abstract
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Peer’s role is very important in development and adoption for preschoolers because they have much more time with peer in modern society. Therefore we need more studies about peer competence. The purpose of this study was to examine the relation of mothers’ childhood experiences, mothers attitude toward children’s emotional expressiveness, and preschoolers’ emotional ability to peer competence. Subjects are 137 preschoolers(65 boys, 72 girls, aged 5~6), their mother and teachers. Emotional ability and peer competence were measured by questionnaire for teacher. Mothers’ childhood experience and mothers’ attitude toward children’s emotional expressiveness were measured by questionnaire for mother. The data were analyzed Pearson’s correlations and multiple regressions. The results of this study were as follows: First, the more permissive mother’s attitude toward children’s emotional expressiveness, the better emotional regulation and the more competent in the peer relations. Second, the higher emotional ability of preschoolers, the more competent in peer relations. By studying which variable best explains preschooler’s peer competence, it was found that emotional regulation had the most effect on peer competence. Third, by studying which variable explains preschooler’s emotional ability, it was found that regulation of other’s emotion and mothers’ attitude toward children’s emotional expressiveness had effect on preschoolers’ emotional ability. Forth, the more rejected experience in childhood, the more compulsive attitude toward children’s expressiveness This showed that parents education programs focusing on permissive attitude towards children’s emotional expressiveness should be developed, counselling on mothers’ childhood experiences should be done and programs to promote children’s emotional ability should be designed in order to improve children’s peer competence.
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KEYWORD
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emotional ability, mothers’ attitude towards children’s emotional expressiveness peer competence, mother’s childhood experience
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