ABSTRACT
Objectives:
This study aims to examine the predictive role of psychological resilience and emotion socialization strategies scores of mothers with 48-72 months old children on their children’s emotion regulation skills, after controlling for some sociodemographic variables.
Materials and Methods:
This study consisted of 659 mothers with 48-72 months old children reached by snowball and convenience sampling method. Data were collected online on a voluntary basis through the Sociodemographic Information Form, the Emotion Regulation Scale, the Scale for Coping with Negative Emotions of Children, and the Adult Resilience Scale. The research is cross-sectional and based on relational screening model.
Results:
The results show that children’s emotion regulation skills scores are positively and significantly predicted by mothers’ psychological resilience scores (β=0.279; p<0.01), positively and significantly predicted by mothers’ supportive emotion socialization strategies scores (β=0.220; p<0.01), and negatively and significantly predicted by mothers’ non-supportive emotion socialization strategies scores (β=-0.260; p<0.01). The multiple linear regression analysis results demonstrated that after controlling children’s gender and number of child in a family, the mother’s psychological resilience, supportive, and non-supportive emotion socialization strategies scores are significant predictors of emotion regulation scores (p<0.01).
Conclusion:
In conclusion, these findings indicate the importance of the psychological resilience of the mother and the emotion socialization strategies used by mothers on the emotional development of children. Therefore, the inclusion of mothers in therapeutic interventions and programs aimed at improving children’s emotion regulation skills may increase the effectiveness of therapy. Also, it is believed that the findings will shed light on the literature by revealing the relationship between parental resilience and emotion socialization strategies and emotion regulation skills.
Keywords: Psychological resilience, emotion socialization, emotion regulation, early childhood
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