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http://dx.doi.org/10.5723/KJCS.2014.35.4.61

The Mediating Effects of Children's Resilience by Gender on the Relationships between Mother's Reactions to Children's Negative Emotions and Children's Emotional Intelligence  

Oh, Ji-Hyun (Chosun University)
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Korean Journal of Child Studies / v.35, no.4, 2014 , pp. 61-78 More about this Journal
Abstract
The study examined the pathways from maternal reactions to children's negative emotions to children's emotion intelligence through children's resilience by gender. The participants in this study comprised 413 elementary school 4th-6th graders (of which 214 were boys, and 199 were girls). They completed questionnaires on maternal reactions to children's negative emotions, children's resilience and levels of children's emotional intelligence. Data were analyzed by means of T-test and structural equation modeling. In the case of the male group, it was found that maternal emotion coaching, when done indirectly, but not directly, had an influence on their levels of emotional intelligence. On the other hand, in the case of the female group, it was found that emotion coaching, when done indirectly, as well as directly, had an influence on their levels of emotional intelligence. Therefore, these results indicate that children's resilience mediated the effects of maternal emotion coaching on emotional intelligence. It also found that there are distinct pathways from maternal reactions to children's negative emotions to emotion intelligence through resilience by gender.
Keywords
mother's reactions to children's negative emotions; emotional intelligence; resilience;
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