Parents’ beliefs about children’s emotions, mother’s emotion talk with their children and children's emotion regulation skills are related concepts in preschool period. Parents’ beliefs about children’s emotions influence to their emotional talk in various ways. While some parents believe in the value of emotion and necessity of emotional expressing, some parents think that emotions are worthless or even dangerous. This limits the emotional dialogue of these parents with their children. When it is considered the effect of emotion talk on the emotion regulation skills of child; children who are encouraged in terms of expressing their emotions freely are likely to have a higher level of emotion regulation skills than children who are socialized in terms of suppressing their emotions.  Children who have the opportunity to talk about their own and others' emotions can be said to be more advantageous than the other children in terms of recognizing and expressing the emotions in the concept of emotion regulation. In this context, the main purpose of the research was to examine the relations between mother-child emotion talk, mothers’ beliefs about emotions and emotion regulation skills of children. 50 mothers and their 4 to 6 years old children who attended a preschool participated in the study. Most of the mothers participated in the study had at least graduate or undergraduate degree. In data collection process, “General Information Form” to measure sociodemographic information of families, “Parents’ Beliefs About Children’s Emotions Ouestionnaire” to measure mothers’ beliefs about children’s emotions and “Emotion Regulation Checlist” to measure children’s emotion regulation skills were used. To examine emotiın talk between mother and child natural language sample was taken during play task. The toys that mother and children played together were provided by the researcher . Recorded conversations were transcribed and evaluated by the researcher using content analysis in the analysis of mother-child emotion talk. Only emotional words and utterances were included the assessment process. Results indicated that no significant relation was obtained between mother-child emotion talk and children’s emotion regulation skills but there was positive significiant relation between mother’s beliefs about children’s emotions and children’s emotion regulation skills.

Keywords: emotion socilization, emotion regulation, beliefs about emotions, parent-child emotion talk