The current study investigated relations among maternal emotion socialization, children's facial emotion recognition (FER), and children's behavioral problems. A sample of 118 preschoolers (M_age = 41.96 months) and their mothers participated. Mothers reported their reactions to children's negative emotions and rated children's internalizing and externalizing problems by completing the Coping with Children's Negative Emotions Scale and Child Behavior Checklist, respectively. Children's FER was assessed with a task that involved matching emotion labels to facial expressions. Results revealed that FER moderated the association between minimizing/punitive maternal reactions and children's externalizing problems. Minimizing/punitive maternal reactions were found to positively correlate with externalizing problems in children with lower levels of FER, but not among children with high levels of FER. Exploratory analyses with child gender also suggested that the moderating effect of FER in the relation between minimizing/punitive maternal reactions and children's internalizing problems applied only to boys, not to girls. The results highlight the importance of children's FER and gender, in addition to maternal reactions to expressed emotion, in shaping their socioemotional adjustment.

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面部情绪识别在母亲情绪社会化和儿童社会情绪调节中的调节作用

目前的研究调查了母亲情绪社会化、儿童面部情绪识别 (FER) 和儿童行为问题之间的关系。118 名学龄前儿童（M_年龄 = 41.96 个月）和他们的母亲参加。母亲分别通过完成应对儿童负面情绪量表和儿童行为检查表报告了他们对儿童负面情绪的反应，并对儿童的内化和外化问题进行了评分。儿童的 FER 通过一项涉及将情绪标签与面部表情匹配的任务进行评估。结果表明，FER 调节了最小化/惩罚性母亲反应与儿童外化问题之间的关联。在 FER 水平较低的儿童中，最小化/惩罚性母亲反应与外化问题呈正相关，但在 FER 水平较高的儿童中则没有。对儿童性别的探索性分析还表明，FER 在最小化/惩罚性母亲反应与儿童内化问题之间的关系中的调节作用仅适用于男孩，而不适用于女孩。结果突出了儿童的 FER 和性别，以及母亲对表达情绪的反应，在塑造他们的社会情绪调整方面的重要性。