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http://dx.doi.org/10.5934/KJHE.2011.20.6.1109

Study of Parental Reactions to a Child's Negative Emotions  

Chung, Myoung-Ja (Dep. of early childhood education, Gwangshin University.Jeonnam education information center)
Lim, You-Kyoung (Dep. of early childhood education, Gwangshin University.Jeonnam education information center)
Kim, Dong-Rye (Dep. of early childhood education, Gwangshin University.Jeonnam education information center)
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Korean Journal of Human Ecology / v.20, no.6, 2011 , pp. 1109-1119 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the difference of the father's and mother's reactions to their children's negative emotions, relations among the children's variables, parent's variables, and parent's reactions. The subjects selected were 183 mothers and 183 fathers with children aged three to five-years-old, from a childcare center and kindergarten in Kwang-ju. Parental emotion-related practices regarding children's negative emotions were assessed with an adaptation of the CCNES(Fabes et al, 1990) that was modified by Kim Hee-Jung(1994). Descriptives, Pearson's correlation coefficient, were used for data analysis by using the SPSS 15.0 program. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: First, fathers and mothers used more positive reactions than negative reactions when their children showed negative emotions. The mothers were significantly higher than fathers on encouragement of expression, punitive, and distress reactions. Second, the children's age and gender, parent's age, level of education and income were negatively and positively correlated to the father's and mother's reactions to their children's negative emotions.
Keywords
child's negative emotion; mother's reaction; father reaction;
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