The relationships between parental emotion expressivity, children`s temperament and children`s coping strategy

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This study aims to investigate the relations between the dimensions of parental
expressivity which are positivity, negative dominant expressivity, negative
submissive expressivity, family environment and child’s coping strategies, and the
effect of child temperament on this relation .111 preschool children between the ages
of 4 and 6 years and their families participated in the study. Family expressivity as
assessed with Halberstadt’s Self Expressivennes in the Family Questionnaire. Three
subscales of Family Environment Scale which are cohesion, expressivity and conflict
were utilized to measure the relation in the family. In order to determine how the
child copes with situation specific stress Vignette Assessment of Preschool

Children’s Coping Strategies was used. VAPCCS consists of four stressful vignettes
that are mastery challenge, peer conflict, parent-child conflict and separation
situations. Child’s coping strategies were coded as five coping strategies, problem
approach and problem avoidance, passive acceptance, and emotion venting. Child’s
temperamental characteristics were assessed with Colorado Child Temperament
Inventory. Results revealed that children’s temperamental characteristics did not
predict children’s coping strategy by its own. However, child coping strategies varied
in the interaction of different child temperament characteristics and dimensions of
maternal emotional expressivity. Children’s soothability moderated the relation
between maternal negative submissive expressivity and children’s problem approach
coping. Moreover, children tended to use less problem avoidance coping strategy in
cases where mothers expressed negative submissive emotion more frequently in the
family and when children had highly sociable temperamental characteristics. Overall,
the results of the study suggested that when fluctuations in the degree of expression
of negative emotion in the family are taken into consideration with children’s
temperamental characteristics, they influence how the children cope with stress.

Hilal Eyüpoğlu
The relationships between parental emotion expressivity, children`s temperament and children`s coping strategy · 2006 · 100 sayfa.
Danışman: Doç.Dr. Sibel Kazak Berument
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