Mother-Child Social Cognition Among Multicultural Families in South Koreaopen access
- Authors
- Lee, Joohee; Choi, Kee-Hong
- Issue Date
- 29-6월-2022
- Publisher
- FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
- Keywords
- multicultural families; marriage immigrant women in Korea; multicultural children; social cognition; emotion recognition; theory of mind
- Citation
- FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY, v.13
- Indexed
- SCIE
SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
- Volume
- 13
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/142787
- DOI
- 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.883212
- ISSN
- 1664-0640
- Abstract
- ObjectiveDespite the rapidly growing number of multicultural families in South Korea, factors influencing parenting and mother-child interactions have not been well-understood. To our knowledge, the present study is the first to have examined how maternal social-cognitive capacity is associated with children's social cognition (e.g., theory of mind and emotion recognition) among multicultural families dwelling in South Korea. MethodsForty-seven multicultural mother-child dyads were recruited. The comprehensive measures on social cognition were administered to both the mothers and children, and social functioning and emotion regulation were administered to the children. ResultsA series of hierarchical regressions indicated that mothers' social cognition significantly explained children's ability to recognize static and dynamic emotional expressions, accounting for 27 and 34% of the variance, respectively. Furthermore, mothers' social cognition was significantly correlated to children's social functioning and emotion regulation. However, mothers' social cognition and children's theory of mind were non-significantly related. DiscussionThe current study examined the effects of social cognition of immigrant mothers on their children's socio-emotional development. As the findings indicated an important role of maternal factors (i.e., social cognition) for children's social cognition and their functions, psycho-social approaches (e.g., social cognition parenting education and training) should be incorporated in services for multicultural families.
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