Ülker Pelin, Metin Aslan Özge
Vocational School of Health Services, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Antalya, Turkey.
Faculty of Education Department of Early Childhood Education, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Antalya, Turkey.
J Genet Psychol. 2025 Jan-Feb;186(1):73-84. doi: 10.1080/00221325.2024.2390451. Epub 2024 Aug 16.
The present study examined the moderating effect of children's emotion regulation on the relations between shyness and internalizing behavior in Turkish preschool children. Participants were = 222 children ( = 58.20 months, SD = 11.24, 116 girls, 106 boys) attending five public kindergartens in Turkey. Mothers provided ratings of children's shyness and emotion regulation; teachers assessed children's internalizing behavior. Results indicated that shyness was positively associated with internalizing behavior and negatively associated with emotion regulation among Turkish preschool children. Moreover, children's emotion regulation significantly moderated the relationship between shyness and internalizing behavior. Specifically, among children with lower levels of emotion regulation, shyness was significantly and positively associated with internalizing behaviors while among children with higher levels of emotion regulation, shyness was not associated with internalizing behaviors. The current findings inform that the importance of improving children's emotional regulation to buffer the internalizing behaviors among Turkish shyness young children. The findings also highlight the importance of considering the meaning and implication of shyness for preschool children.
本研究考察了儿童情绪调节对土耳其学龄前儿童害羞与内化行为之间关系的调节作用。研究参与者为土耳其五所公立幼儿园的222名儿童（平均年龄=58.20个月，标准差=11.24，116名女孩，106名男孩）。母亲对孩子的害羞和情绪调节进行评分；教师评估孩子的内化行为。结果表明，在土耳其学龄前儿童中，害羞与内化行为呈正相关，与情绪调节呈负相关。此外，儿童的情绪调节显著调节了害羞与内化行为之间的关系。具体而言，在情绪调节水平较低的儿童中，害羞与内化行为显著正相关，而在情绪调节水平较高的儿童中，害羞与内化行为无关。当前研究结果表明，改善儿童情绪调节对缓冲土耳其害羞幼儿的内化行为具有重要意义。研究结果还强调了考虑害羞对学龄前儿童的意义和影响的重要性。
