The Influence of Open Parental Communication Ability and Child Ego Resiliency on Children’s Anger Expression: A Study on Children in Crisis

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore variables related to children’s anger expression and prevent improper style of anger expressing style, which provides theoretical data in developing programs to train children to express anger appropriately. Method: The survey was conducted self-reporting among 862 students in 5th and 6th grades from 5 elementary schools in D city. These collected data using STAXI-K(State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory), PACI(Parent-Adolescent Communication Inventory), and ER (Ego-Resiliency Scale), were statistically processed and analyzed based on SPSS24.0 and AMOS 24.0. Results: The results were as follows: First, parental open communication ability and children s ego resiliency di-rectly affect their anger expression(anger-out) and suppression(anger-in). Second, children s ego resiliency has an indirect influence on anger management. Also, parents open communication skills directly impact child ego resiliency. Finally, this study identified the variables influencing children s anger expression. In contrast, the influence of these variables was different respectively on anger expression(anger-out), anger suppression(anger-in), and anger management. Conclusion: The findings of this study suggest that the variables, including parental open communication abil-ity, the environmental factor, and children’s ego resilience, the individual factor, play a significant role in children s anger expressing style, which they can describe, explain, predict, and control their emotion. Among these variables, open parental communication had the most decisive influence directly on anger-out, and anger suppression(anger-in), which indicates that parents need to talk with their child smoothly for their child to express their anger effectively.