Effects of Maternal Features on the Relationship between Stress and Memory Accuracy in Children: with a Focus on Talk Style, Child and Maternal Attachment Stability
AUTHOR : 이승진
INFORMATION : page. 1~18 / 2017 Vol.24 No.3
ABSTRACT
This study aimed at examining the effects of parental features on the association between stress and
memory in 7-8-year-old children. Some studies in the literature support a positive relation between stress
and children’s memory, while others support a negative relation. To address this inconsistency, this study
examined parental features, more specifically their talk and attachments styles, in observing any correlations
to stress and memory in their children. The results generally supported a negative relationship between
stress and child memory. With regard to parental features, children of emotion-oriented parents, who have
emotion-oriented conversations with their children about a stressful event, had more accurate voluntary
recalls and higher resistance to misinformation than children of parents with other talk styles. The level of
children’s stress and parents’ attachment stability were significant predictors of voluntary recall in children
who had an emotion-oriented conversation with their parents before the stressful event. That is, parents
who have an emotion-oriented conversation tend to show high attachment stability, hence their children
experienced less stress during treatment, resulting in higher accuracy of recall. Based on these results, the
author discusses various parental features that affect the relationship between stress and memory in
children.