CORRELATION BETWEEN THE NATURE OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING OF YOUNGER SCHOOLCHILDREN
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Author(s): | Burenina S. Yu., Kalinina S. B., |
| Number of journal: | 3(72) | Date: | September 2025 |
| Annotation: | The article examines the correlation between parentchild relations and emotional wellbeing/distress in younger schoolchildren, and provides a comparative analy sis of the nature of parent-child relationships based on their emo- tional wellbeing/distress. The authors consider the concept of children’s emotional wellbeing in the context of parentchild relationships. Based on theoretical analysis, indicators of children’s emo- tional wellbeing (selfesteem, anxiety, fears, aggression, alex- ithymia, mood) were identified, which were used as a basis for dividing children into 2 groups: emotionally healthy children and children with signs of emotional distress. The article presents the results of the primary diagnos- tics of 132 younger schoolchildren in the Pskov District of the Pskov Region using the projective drawing technique “Nonexistent Animal”, according to which the children were divided into two groups based on their emotional well being/distress. To verify the results of the primary diagnostics, a study was conducted in two groups of younger schoolchil- dren on the main indicators of emotional wellbeing: the level of anxiety according to the method of “Children’s version of the manifest anxiety scale” and alexithymia according to the Alexithymia Questionnaire, which made it possible to verify these indicators in children of the two groups. The key method of this study was the adapted questionnaire “Par- entChild Interaction”, aimed at identifying the features of parent-child interaction from the position of the parents them- selves. The study involved 184 parents. Significant differences are shown in the nature of the relationship between parents and children with signs of emotional distress and parents of emotionally healthy children on the scales: “emotion- al distance closeness with the child”, “presence/absence of cooperation between parents and children”, “consistency/ inconsistency in their demands” and “educational confronta- tion in the family”. The data from the study made it possi- ble to conduct a comparative analysis of the characteristics of interaction between parents with emotionally healthy chil- dren and parents of children with signs of emotional distress and to draw a conclusion about the correlation of these signs. | ||
| Keywords: | parentchild relationships, nature of interaction between parents and children, emotional wellbeing, emotional distress, indicators of emotional distress, parents of emotional- ly healthy children, parents of children with signs of emotional distress, anxiety, alexithymia, primary school age |
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| For citation: | Kalinina S. B., Burenina S. Yu. Correlation between the nature of parent-child relationships and emotional well- being of younger schoolchildren. Biznes. Obrazovanie. Pravo = Business. Education. Law. 2025;3(72):462—467. DOI: 10.25683/ VOLBI.2025.72.1378. |
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