Department of Early Childhood Education, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.
School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2022 Aug;53(4):797-807. doi: 10.1007/s10578-021-01165-y. Epub 2021 Apr 12.
This study explored the associations among emotional regulation in mothers and fathers and preschool children's physical and relational aggression using a Hong Kong Chinese sample. This study also explored whether child gender would moderate the association between parental emotional regulation strategies and children's physical and relational aggression. Participants were 168 children aged 4-6 years. Parents reported on their own emotional regulation approaches and kindergarten class teachers rated children's aggression 6 months later. Path analyses showed that higher levels of reappraisal and lower levels of suppression by mothers was associated with higher levels of child relational aggression. There were no significant associations among fathers' emotional regulation and children's aggression. Results from multi-group analysis showed that there were no significant moderation of the associations by child gender. Results highlight the importance of mothers' emotional regulation in child aggression and suggest that the maladaptive consequences of emotional suppression are culturally relative.
本研究以香港中文样本探讨了父母的情绪调节与学前儿童身体和关系攻击之间的关系。本研究还探讨了儿童性别是否会调节父母情绪调节策略与儿童身体和关系攻击之间的关系。参与者为 168 名 4-6 岁的儿童。父母报告了自己的情绪调节方法，6 个月后幼儿园教师对儿童的攻击性进行了评估。路径分析表明，母亲的再评价水平较高，而抑制水平较低，与儿童的关系攻击性较高有关。父亲的情绪调节与儿童的攻击性之间没有显著关联。多组分析的结果表明，儿童性别对关联没有显著的调节作用。研究结果强调了母亲情绪调节在儿童攻击行为中的重要性，并表明情绪抑制的不良后果在文化上是相对的。
