|
KMID : 1022520120160030033
|
|
Journal of Play Therapy
2012 Volume.16 No. 3 p.33 ~ p.49
|
|
|
The effect of parent empathy on younger children’s emotion regulation : the mediating role of younger children’s self-esteem
|
|
Park Eun-Jung
Kim Jong-Bum
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
This research investigated whether the empathy of parents influences the children`s emotion regulation and how the two variables mediated self-esteem. The participants in this research were 267 parents and teachers of children aged 4 and 5. The results of the research was analysed by using the SPSS 18.0program. The variables average, standard deviation, minimum and maximum value was calculated; in order to understand the relationship between parent` s empathy, children` s self-esteem and emotion regulation a correlation analysis and regression analysis was carried out. In order to find out about mediation effects of self-esteem the identifying procedure of Baron and Kenny (1986) was used. The resultwere summarized. as follows : Firstly, it was discovered that the empathy of parents influences a child` s ability to control their emotions, it was further discovered that there is a difference between mother` s empathy and father` s empathy. Secondly, it was discovered that a father` s empathy towards the child` s ability to control their emotions was deficient. In comparison to the father` s empathy, the empathy by mothers displayed a superior level of attention. Thirdly, it was revealed that a fixed part of self-esteem can be explain by the ability to control one` s emotions. Fourthly, it was discovered that in the self-esteem the relationship between a mothers empathy and the ability to control one` s emotions can be explained by roughly 2% and partial mediation effect also appeared, regarding the mother` s cignitive empathy the influence of the fully mediation effect was seen. It was confirmed that mother` s cognitive empathy in the sub factors imagination had a statistically significant partial mediation effect.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
cognitive empathy, emotion regulation, emotional empathy, parents empathy, self-esteem
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|