A Study on the Parental Perception of Children's Competencies

아동의 생활능력에 대한 부모의 지각에 관한 연구

The purposes of this study were to examine the correlations of children's competencies perceived by fathers and mothers, and to investigate differences of children's competencies in relations to characters of the children and that of the parents. The subjects were 225 pairs of father-mother of 7 and of 12 year old children in Daejon. The major findings were as follows. (1) Children's competencies perceived by fathers and mothers were positively correlated with each other. (2) The gender of child affected much on father-perceived esthetic and musical competencies, and on mother-perceived responsible, intellectual, esthetic, and musical competencies. Child's age also had a great effect on father- and mother-perceived esthetic competencies of child. (3) There were no significant differences in children's competencies in relations to characters of parents except in father-perceived responsible competence by fathers' age and in intellectual competencies by income, and in mother-perceived social competences by mothers' job.