Emotional competence, attachment, and parenting styles in children and parents

Abstract

The goal of this study was to examine whether a subject’s emotional competence correlates to attachment styles and parenting styles in children and their parents. The study was conducted with fifty children (9–11 years old) and their parents, both of whose emotional competence (EKF) and parenting style (PAQ) were measured. The attachment styles of parents and children were measured with the Adult Attachment Scale (AAS) and the Bochumer Bindungstest (BoBiTe), respectively. The findings provide initial support to the assumption that attachment is related to emotional competence in parents. This relationship, however, was not significantly correlated in children. In addition, authoritative parenting and permissive parenting were significantly associated with emotional competence in parents. Emotional competence in children showed to be associated with an authoritative parenting style.

Maternal Parenting and Preschoolers’ Psychosocial Adjustment: A Longitudinal Study

“…Scientific literature on mother–child attachment has shown that there is a significant correlation between maternal attachment patterns and social–emotional competence in children [ 76 , 77 ]. Recent studies have investigated the link between experiences of insecure attachment characterized by high levels of maternal stress and poor internalization of the strategies of emotional regulation and poverty of social skills by the child [ 78 , 79 ]. Children with insecure attachment relationships tend to develop a model of self as incompetent [ 80 ], and their experiences with an insensitive caregiver may influence their beliefs and expectations about future relationships and their social–emotional competence [ 81 ].…”

Pola Asuh Anak Usia Dini dalam Penanaman Perilaku Sosio Emosional Anak

“…Fungsi sosio emosional anak saat ini untuk mengeksplorasi peran kualitas hubungan orang tua dan anak (Wurster et al, 2020). Kompetensi emosional juga dapat dilihat sebagai kemampuan untuk memahami dan mengatur eskpresi emosi secara individual (Mortazavizadeh et al, 2022). Yang dapat diartikan bahwa anak dapat dikatakan aktif atau tidakaktif ditentukan dari faktor ini.…”

The Influence of Parenting Styles on Social-Emotional Competence of Children

“…They used the Socials Skills Rating System [13] to evaluate the social competence, used an instrument adapted after Denham Affective Knowledge Test [14] to evaluate emotional competence, used a Wally Problem Solving Test [15] to evaluate the competence in solving problems and used the Parental Authority Questionnaire [16] to evaluate the parenting styles. For another one, Zeinab conducted a study about emotional competence and parenting styles [17]. They used Parental Authority Questionnaire [16] to measure the parenting style and the Emotional Competence Questionnaire [18] to measure emotional competence.…”

“…It also asks the parents to have great abilities to adjust their way of teaching children according to their children and environment. At the same time, the authoritative parenting style has a positive association with emotional competence, which means that authoritative parenting styles influence the children's development of emotion [17]. Parents with an authoritative parenting style always treat their children as an individual and prefer preparing children rather than control.…”

“…While the children can make their own decision without limitation and guidance, they are spontaneously used to be satisfied and avoiding difficulties. These make it difficult for the children to adjust their emotion, control themselves and overcome the difficulties while in trouble [11,12,17].…”