어머니의 언어통제유형과 유아의 자기조절력의 관계에 대한 조망수용능력의 매개효과

Maternal Verbal Control Styles and Young Child s Self-Regulation Ability: The Mediating Role of Child’s Perspective Taking Ability

This study examined the mediating effect of young child’s perspective taking ability on the relation between maternal verbal control styles and child’s self-regulation ability. Participants were 162 mother-child dyads at two kindergartens and three daycare centers located in Busan, Korea: 82 boys and 80 girls at the age of 4-5 yrs. Descriptive statistics, correlation, and hierarchical multiple regression were used for the analysis. The result showed that mother’s imperative verbal control was negatively correlated with child’s self-regulation ability, whereas positional and personal verbal control styles were not. In respect to the child with higher perspective taking and self-regulation abilities, his/her mother’s imperative and positional verbal control negatively correlated with his/her perspective taking ability. Furthermore, child’s emotional perspective taking ability fully mediated in the relation between mother’s imperative verbal control style and child’s self-regulation ability.