Temperament and anxiety of children in childcare centre: child-parent relationship as mediator

• Main Authors: Low, Biam Hong, Arshat, Zarinah, Yaacob, Siti Nor
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Center for Promoting Ideas 2018
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22697/1/Temperament%20and%20anxiety%20of%20children%20in%20childcare%20centre%20child-parent%20relationship%20as%20mediator.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22697/; https://www.ijhssnet.com/journal/index/4127

The present study was conducted to determine the relationships between child temperament and anxiety with child-parent relationship as mediator among children in childcare centers in Selangor, Malaysia. A total of 319 mothers with children aged between 3 to 6 years old were participated in the study. The findings revealed that both child’s sociability and close child-parent relationship had significant negative relationship with child’s anxiety symptom. Emotional children had significant higher levels of child’s anxiety symptom. Closeness child-parent relationship was fully mediated in child emotionality with anxiety and also child sociability with anxiety.