The Degree of Contribution of Patterns of Mothers’ Treatment to the Emotional Balance of Kindergarten Children

Sami Salamah Al-Massarweh,Abdelraouf Hameed Alyamani,Safia M Jabali,Mohamd M Al-Dlalah

doi:10.5539/jel.v11n2p76

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the degree of contribution of mothers&rsquo; treatment patterns to the emotional balance of kindergarten children and to achieve the objectives of the study; two scales were built: a questionnaire to measure mothers&rsquo; treatment patterns and a questionnaire to measure the emotional balance of kindergarten children after ensuring their validity and reliability. The study sample consisted of 195 children aged 5-6 who were selected from the private kindergartens of the Naour Brigade in Amman Governorate in Jordan. After using arithmetic means, standard deviations, Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis, the results of the study reached the following:    The most common treatment pattern for mothers was the democratic one. The level of emotional balance among kindergarten children was average. The results showed a positive, statistically significant correlation at the significance level (&alpha; = 0.05) between the total score of the emotional balance scale for kindergarten children and the democratic treatment pattern of mothers. The results revealed a statistically significant negative correlation at the significance level (&alpha; = 0.05) between the total score of the emotional balance scale for kindergarten children and the two types of mothers&rsquo; authoritarian and abusive treatment. The regression analysis results revealed that the patterns of mothers&rsquo; treatment contribute to the emotional balance of kindergarten children by 34.2%. The patterns of mothers&rsquo; treatment contributed in varying proportions to the emotional balance of kindergarten children, the highest of which was the authoritarian pattern, then the neglectful pattern, and finally the democratic pattern.

Highlights

A child is born like a blank page, thrown into the first and most influential institution of social upbringing, which is the family, and many psychologists in general and childhood psychologists, in particular, believe that the family occupies a prominent place in the formation of the child’s personality in the first years of his life due to the interaction between parents and children
- The results showed a positive, statistically significant correlation at the significance level (α = 0.05) between the total score of the emotional balance scale for kindergarten children and the democratic treatment pattern of mothers
- Detect the level of emotional balance in kindergarten children

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Introduction

A child is born like a blank page, thrown into the first and most influential institution of social upbringing, which is the family, and many psychologists in general and childhood psychologists, in particular, believe that the family occupies a prominent place in the formation of the child’s personality in the first years of his life due to the interaction between parents and children. The first years of a child’s life are considered one of the most important years in his life, in which the psychological, social, and mental characteristics are formed, in addition to the development of his personality and psychological balance later on This is because of the weakness of the child and its almost total dependence on adults in terms of satisfying his needs, especially the parents, especially the mother, as the nature of the relationship between the child and his parents through the used treatment methods is later reflected in the drawing of the child’s personality, to the extent that this relationship includes warmth, acceptance or rejection and deprivation, the child’s response to himself and towards others is formed, if the parental treatment takes a positive direction, it will generate a balanced personality in the future and form a positive image of himself and others, while the negative parental treatment between the child and his parent makes him feel the loss of security and emotional contradiction and the formation of a negative image of himself and others (AlGhadani, 2014). The troubled family is undoubtedly a fertile breeding ground for behavioral and psychological deviations (Abu Aziza, 2009)

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