Valiente Carlos, Eisenberg Nancy, Spinrad Tracy L, Reiser Mark, Cumberland Amanda, Losoya Sandra H, Liew Jeffrey
Department of Family and Human Development, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Emotion. 2006 Aug;6(3):459-72. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.3.459.
Longitudinal relations between mothers' expressivity, children's effortful control, and their problem behaviors were examined when children (N = 181) were 6.5-10 years old (T2) and again 2 (T3) and 4 (T4) years later. Mothers reported on their expression of positive and negative dominant emotion. Mothers and teachers reported on children's effortful control and externalizing and internalizing problem behaviors. In structural equation models, variables exhibited consistency over time. Further, the relation between mothers' expressivity (positive minus negative dominant emotion) at T2 and children's externalizing problems at T4 was mediated by T3 effortful control. The same process of mediation was significant for teacher- but not mother-reported internalizing problems. The results provide one explanation for how emotion-related socializing behaviors influence children's problem behaviors.
当儿童(N = 181)6.5至10岁时(T2),以及在2年(T3)和4年(T4)后再次进行研究时,考察了母亲的表达性、儿童的努力控制与其问题行为之间的纵向关系。母亲报告了她们积极和消极主导情绪的表达情况。母亲和教师报告了儿童的努力控制以及外化和内化问题行为。在结构方程模型中,变量随时间表现出一致性。此外,T2时母亲的表达性(积极主导情绪减去消极主导情绪)与T4时儿童的外化问题之间的关系由T3时的努力控制介导。相同的中介过程对教师报告的内化问题显著,但对母亲报告的内化问题不显著。研究结果为与情绪相关的社交行为如何影响儿童的问题行为提供了一种解释。