Zhu Jingjing, Xiao Bowen, Hipson Will, Yan Chenyu, Coplan Robert J, Li Yan
Department of Preschool Education, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2021 Mar 15;12:618670. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.618670. eCollection 2021.
The present study explored the role of emotion regulation and emotion lability/negativity as a moderator in the relation between child social avoidance and social adjustment (i.e., interpersonal skills, asocial behavior, peer exclusion) in Chinese culture. Participants were = 194 children (102 boys, 92 girls, = 70.82 months, SD = 5.40) recruited from nine classrooms in two public kindergartens in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Multi-source assessments were employed with mothers rating children's social avoidance and teachers rating children's emotion regulation, emotion lability/negativity and social adjustment outcomes. The results indicated that the relations between social avoidance and social adjustment difficulties were more negative among children lower in emotion regulation, but not significant for children with higher emotion regulation. In contrast, the relations between social avoidance and social adjustment difficulties were more positive among children higher in emotion lability/negativity, but not significant for children with lower emotion lability/negativity. This study informs us about how emotion regulation and emotion lability/negativity are jointly associated with socially avoidant children's development. As well, the findings highlight the importance of considering the meaning and implication of social avoidance in Chinese culture.
本研究探讨了情绪调节以及情绪易变性/消极性在中国文化背景下作为调节变量，在儿童社交回避与社交适应（即人际交往技能、反社会行为、同伴排斥）之间的关系中所起的作用。研究参与者为来自中华人民共和国上海市两所公立幼儿园九个班级的194名儿童（102名男孩，92名女孩；平均年龄=70.82个月，标准差=5.40）。采用多源评估方法，由母亲对儿童的社交回避情况进行评分，教师对儿童的情绪调节、情绪易变性/消极性以及社交适应结果进行评分。结果表明，对于情绪调节能力较低的儿童，社交回避与社交适应困难之间的关系更为消极，但对于情绪调节能力较高的儿童，二者关系不显著。相反，对于情绪易变性/消极性较高的儿童，社交回避与社交适应困难之间的关系更为积极，但对于情绪易变性/消极性较低的儿童，二者关系不显著。本研究让我们了解到情绪调节和情绪易变性/消极性如何与社交回避儿童的发展共同相关。此外，研究结果凸显了在中国文化中考虑社交回避的意义和影响的重要性。
