Abstract
In der vorliegenden Studie wurde ein konzeptuelles Rahmenmodell zum Einfluss familiärer Kontextfaktoren auf die kindliche Emotionsregulation (ER) am Beispiel kindlicher Wut überprüft. Dazu wurden Fragebogen- bzw. Interviewdaten von N = 135 Eltern und ihren Kindern (drei bis elf Jahre) erhoben. Pfadanalysen ergaben Zusammenhänge zwischen den spezifischen elterlichen Reaktionen auf kindliche Wut sowie dem allgemeinen Erziehungsverhalten und adaptiven bzw. maladaptiven kindlichen ER-Strategien. Der Zusammenhang zwischen der elterlichen psychischen Belastung und der kindlichen ER wurde vollständig über die spezifischen elterlichen Reaktionen auf die Wut des Kindes und das allgemeine Erziehungsverhalten mediiert. Die Effekte waren vom kindlichen Alter oder Geschlecht unabhängig. Insgesamt stützen die Ergebnisse größtenteils die Modellannahmen und verdeutlichen das Potential von Elterntrainings, den negativen Einfluss elterlicher psychischer Belastung auf die kindliche ER über das emotionsbezogene Elternverhalten zu reduzieren.
The present study examined a conceptual model of the impact of the family on children’s emotion regulation (ER) regarding anger. Questionnaire and interview data were collected from N =135 parents and their children (three to eleven years). Path analysis results revealed specific parental reactions to their children’s anger as well as the global parenting practices to be significantly related to children’s use of adaptive and maladaptive ER strategies. The relationship between parental psychological symptoms and children’s ER was completely mediated by specific parental reactions and global parenting practices, respectively. Effects were independent of children’s age and gender. Our results mainly support the model assumptions and stress the potential of parent trainings for reducing the negative impact of parental psychological symptoms on children’s ER.
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