아동의 부정적 정서표현에 대한 어머니 반응 유형의 군집과 아동의 정서조절 능력의 관계

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine natural groupings of the sub-factors of mother’s reaction to children’s negative emotion. The natural groupings were as follows; the emotion-coaching-reaction, the emotion-minimizing-reaction and oversensitive reaction. In addition, this paper also investigated individual differences in children’s emotion regulation by clusters of sub-factors of mother’s reaction to children’s negative emotion. The subjects of this study consisted of 322 children. The data was analyzed using cluster analysis and one-way ANOVA. The results suggested four proper clusters, according to the characteristics of mother’s reaction to children’s negative emotion. Cluster 1 was categorized as ‘child centered-emotion coaching’, cluster 2 was categorized as ‘oversensitive-emotion coaching comorbid’, cluster 3 was categorized as ‘confused’ and cluster 4 was categorized as ‘emotion minimizing-unsupporting ’. Additionally, the differences between Emotion regulations in each cluster showed distinct points of interest. In terms of the adaptive emotion regulation, clusters 2 appeared to be more significant than cluster 1. And cluster 3 and 4 showed the lowest level. Whereas cluster 3 showed the highest level in maladaptive emotion regulation, followed by cluster 4. And cluster 1 and 2 showed the lowest level. The results of this study provided a deeper understanding on the operation of specific clusters of mother’s reaction to children’s negative emotion and emotion regulation.