Ana Baba Tutumlarının 36-72 Aylık Çocukların Duygu Düzenleme Becerileri Üzerindeki Etkisi (Muğla ili Menteşe ilçesindeki Üç Merkez Örneği)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between parental attitudes and the emotion regulation skills of 36-72 month-old children. The correlational research design was adopted for the study. The sample included the parents of 205 children aged 36-72 months attending private nurseries and daycare centers in Menteşe, Muğla during 2020-2021 school year. Simple random sampling was used for the selection of research population. Parents individually filled out the “Demographic Information Form” and “The Assessment of Parenting Attitudes of Couples (APAC)”, and the teachers completed the “Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC)”. SPSS 25.0 was used for the analysis of the research data. The results revealed that mother-rated paternal attitudes and father-rated-maternal attitudes both positively predicted the emotion regulation. There was a strong, positive significant relationship between the APAC mother scores for father’s authoritative parenting and the ERC emotion regulation scores, and a positive significant relationship was found between other parenting styles of fathers, as rated by mothers, and children’s lability/negativity scores. In addition, a moderate positive significant relationship was found between the APAC father scores for mother’s authoritative parenting and the ERC emotion regulation scores.