标题：The Influence of Maternal Emotional Expression on Preschoolers?? Behavior Problems: Dual Mediating Effects of Preschoolers?? Emotional Temperament and Emotion Regulation
摘要：Objective: This study aimed to examine the dual mediating effects of preschoolers?? emotional temperament and emotion regulation in the relationship between maternal emotional expression and preschoolers?? behavior problems. Methods: The participants included 167 preschoolers and their mothers from Daegu city and Gyeonsang province. The mothers completed questionnaires regarding their own emotional expression, children??s temperament, emotion regulation, and behavior problems. Results: The primary results of this study were as follows. First, there were significant correlations among maternal emotional expression, preschoolers?? emotional temperament, emotion regulation, and problem behaviors. Second, maternal emotional expression had an indirect effect on preschoolers?? behavior problems through preschoolers?? emotional temperament and emotion regulation. Conclusion: This study revealed that maternal negative emotional expression and preschoolers?? temperament and emotion regulation need to be considered simultaneously to explain the level of preschoolers?? behavior problems. More specifically, the results highlight the dual mediating effects of preschoolers?? temperament and emotion regulation in the relationship between maternal negative emotional expression and preschoolers' behavior problems.
关键词：maternal emotional expression;preschoolers?? emotional temperament;preschoolers' emotion regulation;preschoolers?? behavior problem
