The Test of Structural Model of Relations among Conscience and Mother-Child Interaction in Pre-School Children: To Investigate the Meditative Role of The Effortful Control

ntroduction: his study is a test of a model related to conscience development in early childhood. Researchers have studied that tow developmental bases, child's temperament and educational environment, how have relation together. This paper studies the model that links the early mother-child relationships, children’s temperament trait of effortful control, and their empathy and rule-compatible conduct, two aspects of child conscience. In play study, we used N=515 preschool students. In a developmental chain, effortful control was posited as a mediator of the links between mother-child relationship and children’s conscience. Effortful control is consisted of attention focusing, inhibitory control, low-intensity pleasure and perceptual sensitivity.  Mother–child relationship is consisted of conflicts, closeness and dependence. We used path analyses method and 24 paths analyzed in this model. Based on the fitting coefficients, exceptone path, the model considered suitable. Structural modeling analyses, with effortful control as a mediator, supported relationship across mother-child interaction and empathy and rule-compatible conduct of pre-school's children. Effortful control has not mediation role in effect of dependence of mother-child on rule-compatible conduct. Findings of this study shows the importance of agency and effortful control of pre-school's children for effective interaction with mother in the irmoral internalization.