Psychological Development and Education ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (4): 385-393.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2017.04.01

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Mother and Father Reported Reactions to Children's Negative Emotions and Children's Emotion Regulation Ability

LI Xiaowei1, YANG Qingqing1, ZOU Hong2   

  1. 1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. School of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2017-07-15 Published:2017-07-15

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Abstract: The present study aimed to assess the unique and joint contributions of mother-and father-reported reactions to children's negative emotions to preschoolers' emotion regulation ability, 280 preschoolers' parents participated in the questionnaire survey. The results showed that:(1) Maternal supportive reactions could positively predict preschoolers' emotion regulation ability regardless of preschoolers' gender, and maternal nonsupportive reactions could negatively predict preschoolers' emotion regulation ability. (2) Paternal supportive reactions and nonsupportive reactions significantly predicted girls' lability/negativity. (3) Mother×Father nonsupportive reactions interactive effects predicted emotion regulation ability for girls only, which indicated partial support for the divergence model.

Key words: negative emotions, parental reaction, emotion regulation ability, divergence model, preschooler

CLC Number: 

  • B844

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