The Influence of Parenting Styles on Children's Emotion Regulation Ability within the Framework of Ecological Systems Theory

Abstract

Based on theoretical framework of ecosystem, this study focuses on parenting styles of family, explores influence mechanism of it on children's emotional regulation ability, and verifies developmental differences of emotional regulation under different parenting styles through simulation experiments, with an influence model constructed, which covers variables such as parenting styles, emotional support of family, rule consistency of family, and support of ecological environment, with children's emotional regulation ability as dependent variable, and at same time established index and prediction model of ecological influence. A total of 200 children were selected as simulation samples, divided into four groups of parenting styles: 'authoritative' , 'authoritarian', 'permissive', and 'neglectful' ,while overall score of emotional regulation, expression of positive emotions, control of negative emotions, emotional recovery ability and emotional stability were used as indicators for analysis, results show that children growing up under 'authoritative' parenting style have highest level of emotional regulation ability, followed by 'authoritarian' parenting style, while 'permissive' and 'neglectful' parenting styles are associated with relatively lower levels. Research conclusion holds that positive family parenting environment can effectively promote children's emotional development, thereby highlighting that collaborative support of family, school and society plays an important role in improving children's emotional regulation ability.