Abstract
Background and Objectives: Understanding the influences of parents on children in the process of psychosocial and personality development of children and adolescents has been the focus of psychologists and sociologists. This study aimed to predict the emotional and social competence of the child based on spiritual health and maternal emotional structure according to the mediating role of children’s attachment style. Methods: The statistical population of this correlational descriptive was female primary school students and their mothers in Tehran City, Iran. Of them, 250 individuals were selected by purposive and voluntary sampling method using Klein’s method. The research instruments included Zhu and Ji’s (2012) Emotional and Social Competency Inventory, Polutzin and Ellison’s Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS), and Kern’s Attachment Style Classification QuestionnaireAttachment style. The collected data were analyzed using AMOS. Results: The obtained results suggested that the structure of maternal metacognition was directly related to children’s attachment style (-0.33); maternal spiritual health and children’s attachment style (0.37); the structure of maternal metacognition and the emotional-social competence of the child (-0.26); mothers’ spiritual health and child’s emotional and social competence (0.18), and the child’s attachment style and the child’s emotional and social competence (0.49). The structure of maternal emotional well-being and the emotional-social competence of the child (-0.16) as well as the spiritual health of the mother and the emotional-social competence of the child (0.18) were indirectly related. Conclusion: Considering the importance of the child’s emotional and social competence, the emphasis on the influential factors of the present study can be promoted in developing this skill among children. Maternal spiritual health and emotional structure were related to the child’s emotional and social competence through the attachment style of the child; the strongest relationship concerned the relationship between attachment style and emotional and social competence
Highlights
This skill includes the successful management of life tasks, such as learning, communicating, solving everyday problems, and adapting to complex developmental needs. These capabilities include self-awareness, impulse control, cooperation, and self-care [2]. In this regard, recognizing how parents affect children and examining the role of each in the process of psychosocial and personality development of children and adolescents has always been the focus of psychologists and sociologists
This is because highlighting their key role can be useful in the primary prevention of psychological trauma and abuse in childhood and school years. These injuries include children’s morbid dependencies on families as a result of unnecessary care; children ‘s expected behaviors that cause failure in a healthy society; children’s lack of necessary social skills, such as problem-solving and empathy; the formation of immature emotions in children; the formation of immature emotions in children that adversely impact their adulthood relationships. These could be attributed to the inefficient achievements of families, especially mothers, this study aimed to predict emotional-social capability in children based on spiritual health and maternal metacognition structure with the mediating role of children’s attachment styles
The questionnaire battery was uploaded in Google Forms and provided to the mothers of students who met the following inclusion criteria: The biopsychological health of the children and their mother; the age of children to range between 7 and 12 years and the age of mothers to range between 35 and 50 years; the child to live with both parents; the absence of specific diseases in a family member, including siblings
Summary
Social and emotional competencies are the ability to understand, manage, and express the social and emotional aspects of one’s life This skill includes the successful management of life tasks, such as learning, communicating, solving everyday problems, and adapting to complex developmental needs. These capabilities include self-awareness, impulse control, cooperation, and self-care [2]. In this regard, recognizing how parents affect children and examining the role of each in the process of psychosocial and personality development of children and adolescents has always been the focus of psychologists and sociologists. This study aimed to predict the emotional and social competence of the child based on spiritual health and maternal emotional structure according to the mediating role of children’s attachment style
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