The Korean Journal of Community Living Science (한국지역사회생활과학회지)

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Effects of Mothers' Nurturing Attitude and Mothers' Sign Language Level on the Depression of Hearing Impairment Children

청각장애 아동의 우울에 대한 어머니의 양육태도와 수화수준의 영향

  • Choi, Young-Hee (Dept. of Child & Family Welfare, The University of Suwon) ;
  • Cho, Moon-Kyo (Dept. of Child & Family Welfare, The University of Suwon)
  • 최영희 (수원대학교 아동가족복지학과) ;
  • 조문교 (수원대학교 아동가족복지학과)
  • Received : 2012.02.09
  • Accepted : 2012.03.16
  • Published : 2012.03.30
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Abstract

This study was performed to understand the depression of children with hearing impairment with relation to their mothers' nurturing attitude and sign language level. The subjects were 131 hearing impaired children aged from 9 to 16 years and their mothers, who had no hearing impairments. The children's depression was assessed by CDI(Kovacs 1983) adapted by Cho and Lee(1990), and the maternal attitude was measured through the instrument developed by Oh and Lee(1982) and revised by Lim(1987). The results were as follows. First, the girls' depression was higher than the boys', and children in a dormitory type of school showed higher depression than those in a general type of school. Second, children's depression did not show differences according to mother-child communication methods but differed according to mothers' sign language level. Children whose mothers had high level of sign language showed the highest depression and those whose mothers had beginning level of sign language showed the lowest depression. And mothers' affective, goal- achieving and rational attitude were negatively related with children's depression. Third, the depression of hearing impairment children was influenced mainly by the maternal affective attitude, and the next order was the type of school the children attend.

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