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The influence of children's and mothers' emotional expressiveness in mother-child interaction settings on children's social competence  

Song, Ha-Na (Department of Child Psychology and Education Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Choi, Kyoung-Sook (Department of Child Psychology and Education Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
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Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association / v.44, no.11, 2006 , pp. 51-65 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examined the influence of mothers' and children's emotional expressiveness on children's social competence. Sixty-five kindergarten children and their mothers were observed in a lab setting which included 5 free play and 5 task episodes. The children's and mothers' behaviors during these episodes were videotaped and rated by two coders in terms of emotional expressiveness, sociability to others, ability to regulate frustration, compliance, and autonomy. Intercoder reliability between the two coders for each behavioral category ranged from .84 to .99. The results showed that children's social competence was significantly influenced by their positive expressiveness, indicating that children with higher expressiveness were more sociable to others and less frustrated in a stressful situation. Significant relationships were also found between mothers' and children's negative expressiveness, and children's compliance and autonomy. In particular, the consistency between mothers' and children's levels of negative expressiveness significantly predicted the children's compliance and autonomy. The socialization of emotion between mothers and children was discussed, as was the relationship between emotional and social competence. Suggestions for future study were also presented.
Keywords
emotional expressiveness; social competence; mother-child interaction; socialization of emotion;
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