Jin Zhuyun, Zhang Xutong, Han Zhuo Rachel
Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2017 Dec 18;8:2198. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02198. eCollection 2017.
The theoretical model of emotion regulation and many empirical findings have suggested that children's emotion regulation may mediate the association between parents' emotion socialization and children's psychological adjustment. However, limited research has been conducted on moderators of these relations, despite the argument that the associations between parenting practices and children's psychological adjustment are probabilistic rather than deterministic. This study examined the mediating role of children's emotion regulation in linking parents' emotion socialization and children's psychological adjustment, and whether dyadic collaboration could moderate the proposed mediation model in a sample of Chinese parents and their children in their middle childhood. Participants were 150 Chinese children (87 boys and 63 girls, = 8.54, = 1.67) and their parents ( = 39.22, = 4.07). Parent-child dyadic collaboration was videotaped and coded from an interaction task. Parents reported on their emotion socialization, children's emotion regulation and psychopathological symptoms. Results indicated that child emotion regulation mediated the links between parental emotion socialization and child's psychopathological symptoms. Evidence of moderated mediation was also found: supportive emotion socialization and child emotion regulation were positively correlated only at high and medium levels of dyadic collaboration, with child's psychopathological symptoms as the dependent variables. Our findings suggested that higher-level parent-child collaboration might further potentiate the protective effect of parental supportive emotion socialization practices against child psychopathological symptoms.
情绪调节的理论模型和许多实证研究结果表明，儿童的情绪调节可能在父母的情绪社会化与儿童心理调适之间的关联中起中介作用。然而，尽管有观点认为养育方式与儿童心理调适之间的关联是概率性而非决定性的，但对这些关系的调节因素的研究却很有限。本研究考察了儿童情绪调节在父母情绪社会化与儿童心理调适之间的中介作用，以及在一个中国中年父母及其子女的样本中，二元协作是否能够调节所提出的中介模型。参与者为150名中国儿童（87名男孩和63名女孩，平均年龄 = 8.54岁，标准差 = 1.67）及其父母（平均年龄 = 39.22岁，标准差 = 4.07）。亲子二元协作通过一项互动任务进行录像并编码。父母报告了他们的情绪社会化、孩子的情绪调节和心理病理症状。结果表明，儿童情绪调节在父母情绪社会化与儿童心理病理症状之间起中介作用。还发现了有调节的中介的证据：以儿童心理病理症状为因变量时，支持性情绪社会化与儿童情绪调节仅在二元协作的中高水平上呈正相关。我们的研究结果表明，更高水平的亲子协作可能会进一步增强父母支持性情绪社会化做法对儿童心理病理症状的保护作用。
