• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.121-137
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that have an influence on parenting stress and to examine the guilty conscience of parents who send their children to full-day child care centers. The results of this study were as follows : First, it showed that the negative parenting attitude of mothers with a university diploma or higher is higher than mothers with a two-year college diploma or below. And positive attitude of working mother is higher than nonworking mothers in the difference of mother's guilty conscience, parenting stress and parenting behavior according to the demographic characteristics. Second, mother's guilty conscience and parenting stress showed a negative relationship with mother's a positive parenting behavior and a positive relationship with mother's negative parenting behavior. Third, after review of the effect of mother's guilty conscience and parenting stress on positive and negative parenting behavior, the most influential variable on positive and negative parenting behavior was parenting guilty conscience.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.33-40
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• 2020

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of fathers' sex-role attitude and parenting involvement on mothers' parenting stress. The subjects were 383 parents with young children aged 3-5 in Metropolitan area, South Korea. We measured the study variables using the questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation analyses, and the analyses of multiple regression using SPSS 21.0. The results showed that both fathers' sex-role attitude and fathers' parenting involvement had the statistically significant negative correlations with mothers' parenting stress. Second, fathers' sex-role attitude and parenting involvement showed the statistically significant negative effects on mothers' parenting stress. We suggest that it is necessary to promote the fathers modern and desirable sex-role attitude and to support fathers' participation in parenting in order to alleviate the parenting stress of mothers with young children.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.47-65
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• 2010

The current study aims to examine differences of mother's child-rearing attitude by background variables of infant's and mothers, the influence of mother's child-rearing attitude, temperament and goodness of fit of infant's on adjustment to childcare center, and relative influence among elements. Subjects for the study were 165 infant's of two year old attending 8 childcare centers in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do and Jeju-do, and their mothers and homeroom teachers at childcare centers. As a result of the study, it was found that there was no difference in background variables such as sex and order among siblings of infant's, childcare experience and average hours at childcare centers a day, and mother's age and job, while there were differences in mother's child-rearing attitude by mother's education, household's monthly income and mother's working hours per week. Also it was observed that mother's restrictive attitude, positive attitude and infant's regular temperament influenced their adjustment to childcare centers, and relatively influential elements on general adjustment to childcare centers were mother's restrictive attitude and positive attitude. That IS, it was found that as mother's restrictive attitude and positive attitude were high, infant's general adjustment to childcare centers became high. These study results show that if infant's learn basic rules and habits from parents at home by having positive relationship with mothers, getting appropriate educative instruction, having proper autonomy and obtaining positive assessment from their mothers, rather than strict restriction or bluff, can adapt themselves to childcare centers with no difficulty.

• Korean Journal of Child Education & Care
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.75-86
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• 2019

Objective: The study looked at the relationship between the mother's adult attachment, the children's problematic behavior and the mother's nurturing attitude. In doing so, this study tried to determine whether the mother's nurturing attitude would play a moderating role in the context of the effect of mother' adult attachment on the children's problematic behavior. Methods: we surveyed 352 mothers of 3~5 year old infants who were financially dependent on day care centers. Results: The problematic behavior of being daunted is high when mothers' adult attachment of avoidance is high and when mothers have low level of controlling pattern in their nurturing of their children. The problematic behavior of anxiety and depression was observed when adult attachment of anxiety was high and low level of controlling pattern in their nurturing. Meanwhile, when the externalized problematic behaviors were examined, no interaction effect of mothers' adult attachment and nurturing pattern was observed in all sub-levels of the children's externalized problematic behaviors. Conclusion/Implications: We could see how the influence of parenting attitude appears in mothers with unstable adult attachment. In addition, mothers with unstable adult attachment may be able to confirm that the quality of the interaction of the parent-child relationship and the form of the child's problem behavior differ according to the level of the mother's parenting attitude in the child's problem behavior. The results of this study showed that mothers with unstable adult attachment differed in the form of problem behaviors of infants according to mother's parenting attitude in infant problem behaviors.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.109-129
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• 2015

This study is to examine the effects of smartphone addiction on the mothers' parenting efficacy and parenting attitude. This study consisted of 203 smartphone using mothers of preschoolers in Gyonggi-do. The measurements included smartphone addiction scale(National Information Society Agency, 2011), the parenting efficacy scale(Choi & Chung, 2001), and the parenting attitude scale(Bae, 2005). Theses analyses were included in the Pearson correlation coefficient, the T-test, and the Hierarchical regression analysis. The findings indicated that the younger mothers showed higher levels of smartphone addiction. The results of smartphone addiction subscales on parenting efficacy indicated that the disturbance of adaptive functioning was related with general parenting ability, healthy parenting ability, communication ability, and learning guidance ability. The results of smartphone addiction subscales on parenting attitude showed that the disturbance of adaptive functioning was positively related with rejective parenting attitude and virtual life orientation was negatively associated with affective and autonomous parenting attitude. These findings can emphasize parents' appropriate smartphone use, and be useful resources to develop and utilize the programs of positive parenting efficacy and parenting attitude.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.25-45
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• 2012

The aim of the present study was to analyze the elements of young children's leadership which is influenced by socio-demographic variable elements, mother's parental attitude and the ability of children' self-regulation with subjects of 435 five-year-old children and their mothers. Results showed that there was a difference in children's total leadership according to the gender. Regarding differences of mother's rearing attitude, boys showed higher self-control and leadership than girls. In differences of self-regulation and leadership, girls had a higher ability of self-regulation and leadership than boys. For birth order, parents who had more than 2 children show higher Control enemy rearing attitude. Regarding mother's employment, a working mother had freer rearing attitudes. Regarding a mother's educational background, there were differences of groups among rearing attitudes. In differences of family monthly income, there were differences regarding AE static rearing attitudes, autonomous parenting attitudes and get-up-and-go of leadership. Secondly, as a result of the relationship among mother's rearing attitudes had a static correlation between autonomous parenting attitudes and control enemy rearing attitudes. Thirdly, the children's leadership is high when the family income is high, mother's rearing attitude is free and children's ability of self-control is high.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.531-539
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• 2019

This study was intended to investigate the effects of parenting attitude of mothers of multicultural family and sensory processing skills of children on school readiness of preschool children. This study conducted Maternal Behavior Instrument(MBRI), Short Sensory Profile(SSP), and School readiness test on children of multicultural family and their mothers who are residing in Gwangju and Jeonnam, and results are as follows. According to the result of parenting attitude of mothers of multicultural family showed that total score 165.72±24.19. According to the result of investigating a correlation between parenting attitude of mothers of multicultural family and sensory processing skills of children on school readiness, only parenting attitude of mothers of multicultural family showed positive relationship with school readiness of children(p<.05). According to the result of investigating the effects of parenting attitude of mothers of multicultural family and sensory processing skills of children on school readiness, it was identified that parenting attitude of mothers of multicultural family makes significant effect on school readiness of children. To sum up, it is considered that parents education required for developing positive parenting attitude of mothers of multicultural family and mediations related to school readiness for school life adaptation of children of multicultural family are necessary for children of multicultural family to get adjusted to school life easily after they enter school.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.479-499
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of Mother's Child-Rearing Attitudes on young children intelligence, multiple intelligences and emotional intelligence. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, 215 children and their mothers and teachers of children 15 were investigated. Data analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis were conducted to analyze the mother's Child-Rearing Attitudes and the relationship between the young children's intelligence and multiple intelligences and emotional intelligence. The results of this study and the conclusions obtained through the discussion are as follows: First, the relationship between the mother's child-rearing attitudes and intelligence, multiple intelligences, on the other hand, showed a high correlation relationship between the mother's child-rearing attitudes and emotional intelligence and appeared to be correlated with low. Second, the rejective attitude and autonomous attitude variables that best explain the entire intelligence and multiple intelligence of young children, the affectionate attitude and autonomous attitude, the young children's the entire emotional intelligence best explain the factors. These results in the development of intelligence, multiple intelligence, emotional intelligence, affectionate attitude depending on the situation, autonomous attitude shows rejective attitude avoiding uniform, certain attitudes, rather than to show the mother's Child-Rearing Attitudes desirable that suggests.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.227-237
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• 2018

This study focuses on the mediated effect of value of children with a purpose of examining the influence of maternal family-of-origin. A group of 247 mothers having young children in the age of 3 to 5 years participated in a survey which is consisted of the scale of family-of-origin experiences, parenting attitude and value of children. The study results show four aspects: First, family-of-origin experiences have positive effect on value of children. Second, maternal value of children also appears to be positive on parenting attitude. Third, family-of-origin experiences have positive effect on parenting attitude. Lastly, value of children shows mediated effect between family-of-origin experience and parenting attitude. In other words, having high level of positive awareness in family-of-origin experiences brings positive value of children, and the value of children brings positive effect on parenting attitude. Therefore, multilateral measures and methodical supports are needed to develop positive value of children, and consideration on father is required as a joint partner of rearing children.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.297-307
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was conducted to identify the effects of emotional coaching parents education program on emotional reaction attitude, parenting efficacy and emotional coaching style of mother with young children. A total 60 mother with young children at K city were participated. The collected data were analyzed using t-test. Main results of this study were the experimental group showed significantly better score in the parenting efficacy than the control group after taking program And, the experimental group showed significantly better score in the emotional coaching style than the control group affer taking program. this results suggest that there is a significance in presenting scientific evidence of emotional coaching parents education program.