An Investigation of the Relationship Between Mothers' Emotion Expression and Mothers' Report and Child's Self-Report-Based Emotion Regulation

Authors : Kevser Keleş, Eyüp Çelik

Pages : 78-91

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Publication Date : 2024-04-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This study aims to investigate whether mothers\' emotional expression affects children\'s emotion regulation and to examine the nature of the congruence between mothers\' report-based child emotion regulation and child\'s self-report-based emotion regulation. The research was conducted with a quantitative research design, specifically a correlational survey model. The study group consisted of a total of 209 primary school students, including 119 girls and 90 boys, and their mothers. Berkeley Emotional Expressivity Questionnaire (BEQ) and Children\'s Emotion Management Scales: Anger and Sadness/ Child-Parent (CEMS: Anger and Sadness/C-P) forms were used to collect data. The relationships between variables were examined through correlation and regression analysis. The study\'s findings revealed that the parent form and child form of emotion regulation skills subscales were positively correlated, except for the anger inhibition subscale. The regression analysis demonstrated that child anger dysregulated-expression was predicted by the parent anger dysregulated-expression, parent sadness inhibition, and parent anger inhibition; child anger coping was predicted by the parent joy savoring; child sadness inhibition was predicted by the parent sadness inhibition; child anger dysregulated-expression was predicted by the parent sadness dysregulated-expression; child joy dampening was predicted by the parent anger dysregulated-expression parent sadness inhibition; child joy savoring was predicted by the parent sadness inhibition. When considering gender differences in emotion regulation skills, it was found that girls tended to conceal their anger more but were better at coping with anger, while boys were more likely to express their anger in inappropriate ways.
Keywords : Mother, Child emotion regulation, Primary school