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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2013.14.9.4240

The Relationship Between Mothers' Safety Knowledge and Home Safety Practice  

Kim, Ji-Young (Dept. of Early Childhood Education, Honam University)
Youn, Jin-Ju (Dept. of Child Welfare, Howon University)
Kim, Yong-Lim (Rira Nature Kindergarten)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.14, no.9, 2013 , pp. 4240-4247 More about this Journal
Abstract
This purpose of this study was to investigate the difference of safety practice and safety knowledge according to background variables of mothers and the relationship between practice and knowledge in safety of mothers. The subjects were 143 mothers in Iksan city. A questionnaire was made by the researcher on the basis of relevant materials. The data was analyzed by statistical methods such as frequency, Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe and Pearson's correlation. The results are as follow: First, mothers' safety knowledge was higher than average. There were significant differences in emergence care, dangerous material, toy safety and young children' developmental character according to mothers' age. There were significant differences in dangerous situation, young children' developmental character and sum score of safety knowledge according to mothers' educational level. So there were significant differences in electrical fire safety, young children's developmental character according to children's age. Second, mothers typically practiced home safety. There were significant differences bathroom, entrance according to mothers' age. And there were significant differences room, kitchen and sum score of safety practice according to children's age. Third, there is no correlation between mothers' safety knowledge and home safety practice.
Keywords
Safety Knowledge; Safety Practice;
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