Parents' Privacy Attitudes towards Children's Rooms of the Urban Housing

도시주거 자녀실에서의 프라이버시 행태 연구 - 부모의 태도를 중심으로 -

In the course of modernization coupled with urbanization, children's rooms of Korean urban housing has emerged as a symbol of evolution of people's dwelling standards. At the same time. family member's privacy-oriented needs in the home environment have shown its usefulness in the quality of life to some extent. The authors made an analysis of the parents' privacy behavior in relation to the children's rooms, through 1)parents' access rule, and 2)their intervention including goods as a measure. The results are as following: 1)Between knocking behavior a]eng wi th call ins by names of their children (or clearing throat) and non-knocking behavior. there proved to be difference in the parents' attitudes towards access to the children's rooms. The difference is made mainly by the children's age, sex and the exclusiveness of children's rooms. 2)The degree of intervention within children's roms by peopel and goods is observde to be different significantly according to children's age, but not significantly to children's sex and exclusiveness of children's rooms.