• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.253-271
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• 2011

This study examined the effects of infants' and toddlers' temperament and mothers' parenting self-efficacy on parenting behavior. Two hundred and thirty-two mothers with infants and toddlers completed the questionnaires regarding children's temperament, parenting self-efficacy and parenting behavior. The collected data were analysed by correlations and pathway analysis. The results were as follows: First, infants' and toddlers' temperament directly and indirectly through mothers' parenting self-efficacy affected affectionate and permissive-uninvolved parenting behavior. Second, mothers' parenting self-efficacy directly affected affectionate, authoritarian and permissive-uninvolved parenting behavior and mediated between children's temperament and mothers' parenting behavior. Additionally the most important variable predicting mothers' affectionate and permissive-uninvolved parenting behavior was infants' and toddlers' temperament, and the most important variable for authoritarian parenting behavior was mothers' parenting self-efficacy.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.79-96
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural relationships between preschooler's temperament, externalizing behavior problems and mother's parenting competency. The 5th Panel Study of Korean Children by Korea Institute of Child Care and Education were analyzed in this study by using the structural model. The major findings are as follows, First, preschoolers' emotionality temperament were found to have a negative effect on mothers' parenting competency. Preschoolers' activity and sociability temperament had a positive influence on mothers' parenting competency. Second, preschoolers's emotionality temperament also had a direct impact on their externalizing problems behavior, otherwise preschoolers's activity and sociability temperament were unrelated to that. Third, mothers' parenting competency had a negative influence on preschoolers' externalizing problems behavior. Finally, mothers' parenting competency had mediating effects between preschoolers' temperament and their externalizing problems behavior. These findings suggest that parental education should be concerned about parenting competency based on the understanding of preschooler's temperament.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.159-180
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• 2011

This study examined the effects of children's temperament, self-control and maternal parenting on children's playfulness. The subjects of this study were 288 3-, 4- and 5- years old children and their mothers. The collected data were analyzed by correlations and pathway analysis. The results were as follows: First, children's sex, sociability temperament, self-control and maternal authoritarian parenting directly affected children's playfulness. Children's sex indirectly affected children's playfulness through children's activity level and self-control. Children's sociability and emotionality temperament indirectly affected children's playfulness through maternal authoritarian parenting. Maternal authoritarian parenting indirectly children's playfulness affected through children's self-control. Second, the most important variable predicting children's playfulness was maternal authoritarian parenting.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.147-166
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of maternal psychological control and the disparity between children's temperament and mothers' demand level on children's externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. The participants of this study were 221 children aged 4 to 5 and their mothers from three kindergartens located in Busan and Gyeongsangnam-do. To measure children's behavior problems, the Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales were used. Maternal psychological control was assessed by the Psychological Control Scale-Youth Self-Report. The Revised Dimension of Temperament Survey and DOTS-R: ethnotheory was used, to measure the disparity between children's temperament and mothers' demand level. The data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics, t-test and hierarchical regression analysis. The results of this study were as follows. First, both for boys and girls, the disparity between children's activity temperament and mothers' demand level had a negative effect on externalizing behavior problems. However, maternal psychological control had no significant effect on externalizing behavior problems both for boys and girls. Second, for boys, the high level of maternal psychological control and the disparity between children's adaptive temperament and mothers' demand level had a negative effect on internalizing behavior problems. However, for girls, such effects were not significant.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.67-93
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• 2010

The purpose of the present study was to examine how 25~36-month-old toddlers' temperament, mother's rearing attitude, teacher interaction relates to their language abilities and to analyze the predictive power of these variables in predicting language ability. The subjects were 206 toddlers, 206 mothers and 38 class teachers at child care center in G metropolitan city. The collected data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation analysis and stepwise multiple regression analysis on SPSS program. The results of this study were as follow. First, there was a significant relationship between mother's rearing attitude, teacher interaction and toddlers language abilities. However, toddlers' temperament showed no significant correlations with toddlers language abilities. Second, teacher's positive attitude was the best predictor of toddlers language abilities. Toddlers' reactivity and mother's rational guidance were also predictors of toddlers' language abilities.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-17
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• 2016

The objective of the study is to find out the effects of toddler's temperament and mother's parenting behavior on the development of vocabulary ability. The study was conducted with 299 infants between the ages of 18 and 24 months and their mothers in 47 day care centers in I city, Jeollabukdo. The results of the study are as follows. First, according to the correlation between infant's temperament and vocabulary based on the composition of temperament, approach-avoidance, adaptability, and mood showed a negative correlation with receptive and expressive vocabulary, and response intensity showed a positive correlation with receptive vocabulary. Second, according to the relation between mother's parenting behavior and infant's vocabulary ability based on the sub-factors of mother's parenting behavior, instructional parenting behavior and setting-limits parenting behavior showed a positive correlation with receptive and expressive vocabulary. Third, according to the effects of infant's temperament and mother's parenting behavior on the development of infant's vocabulary ability, as for the understanding of vocabulary, the explanation power of approach-avoidance is the highest, followed by instructional parenting behavior, response intensity, and mood. As for expressive vocabulary, the explanation power of instructional parenting behavior is the highest, followed by mood, response intensity and activity. In the development of infant's vocabulary ability, it was found that receptive vocabulary was affected the most by approach-avoidance, and expressive vocabulary was affected the most by instructional parenting behavior. Mothers will have to have interrelation skills suitable for temperament for the development of infant's receptive vocabulary, and have parenting behavior expressing the traits of things and events for the development of expressive vocabulary.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.5160-5171
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to find out the explanatory power of the mother psychological characteristics (self-efficacy, self-esteem, depression, parenting stress), infant temperament, parenting look at how the variables affect the infant development. Study is an infant born in 2008, 1802 mothers name. Child Policy Research Institute Korea Children's Panel 3rd year data were used for the study. Analysis of the data was analyzed using the SPSS 18.0 correlation evaluate the direct and indirect effects between the path and the effect of each variable on infant development through Amos 16.0. The results were as follows. First, the mother significant indirect effect of mothers had a positive impact due to the influence of positive parenting Infant Development Psychological variables were mother and mediating role of parenting behavior was completely mediated in the path to infant development. Second, infant temperament and parenting mothers showed a complete mediating effect on the path to the Infant Development were significant indirect effects mediated by parenting mothers on infant development. Third, the direct effects on the mother parenting infant development showed a statistically significant result.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.311-319
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• 2012

This study, by grasping the degree of anxiety of Korean mothers and multicultural family mothers because of their hospitalized children, was aimed to arrange the basic data for developing the program to help the mothers of Korea and multicultural family reduce the anxiety happening due to the hospitalization of their children and adapt to their environment. Methods: The subjects of the study were a total of 200 people composed of 100 multicultural family mothers, and 100 Korean mothers respectively whose children were hospitalized in the pediatric department of K university hospital located in Daejeon City. And the period of data collection was from Aug 1, 2010 to Aug 31, 2010.As a study tool, the measuring tool of Kim Jeong Taek(1978), which STAI of Sielberger(1972) was adapted to Koreans, was used.The collected data was analyzed using SPSS WIN 12.0. Results. A result of the state anxiety of the Korean mothers with that of the multicultural family mothers of the inpatient children, Korean mothers 2.11, multicultural family mothers 2.17, result of temperament anxiety showed Korean mothers 2.09, multicultural family mothers 1.94. As a result of comparing the anxiety of the Korean mothers with that of the multicultural family mothers of the inpatient children, there was no difference between groups in both temperament anxiety and state anxiety. In a situation of anxiety, when there was no explanation of the treatment or therapy, both Korean mothers and multicultural family mothers showed the severe anxiety. In the degree of anxiety according to the general characteristics of the mothers of the inpatient children, there was not a statistically significant result in anxiety according to general characteristics of the inpatient children of korean family mothers, there was a significant difference in state anxiety according to the state of average monthly income in Korean mothers(P<.05), however, there was a significant one in temperament anxiety in the course of perceiving a test method in multicultural family mothers(P<.05). In the degree of anxiety according to the general characteristics of the mothers of the inpatient children, there was a significant difference in state anxiety according to the state of average monthly income in Korean mothers(P<.05), however, there was a significant one in temperament anxiety in the course of perceiving a test method in multicultural family mothers(P<.05). Conclusion: Through the results of the study above, no matter what socio-demographic characteristics of the mothers of the inpatient children are, regardless of the general characteristics of the inpatient children, it was found out that most of mothers felt anxiety.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.244-258
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• 1995

아기의 출생은 부모에게 환경적, 신체적, 정신적 부담을 준다. 이렇게 부모가 된 사람들은 부모역할 수행시 어려움을 겪고 있고, 그 중에서도 어머니가 아버지보다 역할수행시 더 많은 어려 움을 겪고 있다고 한다. 본 연구는 생후 8개월 된 아기 어머니들을 대상으로 역할이 론을 토대로 모성역할 획득에 영향을 주는 요인들로 가설적 모형을 구축하고, 이의 적합성을 검정하므로 써 어머니들의 모성역할 획득을 촉진하기 위하여 필요한 간호 정보를 제공하려고 한다. 본 연구는 문헌고찰을 통하여 모성역할 긴장과 모성역할 획득에 영향을 주는 요인으로 일상생활의 시간적 여유, 아기 기질, 사회적 지지가 포함되었고, 모성역할 긴장이 모성역할 획득에 영향을 주는 것으로 이론적 기틀을 구성하였다. 연구도구로는 모성역할 획득 중 모성 정체감을 측정하기 위해 Osgood(Walker et al., 1986a에서 인용)도구, 모성역할 수행을 측정하기 위해 수정보완 된 Gibaud-Wallston(1977)도구와 어머니가 지각한 모아 상호작용정도 도구를 이용하였고, 모성역할 긴장측정에는 수정 보완된 Hobbs(정, 1985에서 인용)도구를 이용하였다. 아기 기질은 수정 보완한 The degree of thor inventory(Mercer, 1986 에서 인용), 남편의 정신적지지 측정은Taylor(Durrett, 1986에서 인용)의 도구를 이용하였고, 일상생활의 시간적 여유, 남편의 신체적 지지 및 주위의 지지측정은 연구자가 개발한 도구를 사용하였다. 1993년 1월부터 1994년 1월까지 대전시 5개 보건소에 등록된 대상자들에게 우편으로 설문지를 보내어 221명이 회수되어 회수율이 약72%였다. 일반적인 서술적 자료 분석은 SPSS PC+ 를 이용하였고, 가설적 모형은PC-LISREL 7.13 (Joreskkog & Sorbom,1988)프로그램을 이용하여 공변량구조분석을 하였다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 모성역할 획득에 모성역할 긴장, 일상생활의 시간적 여유, 아기 기질, 사회적 지지가 영향을 주며, 모성역할 긴장에는 일상생활의 시간적 여유, 아기 기질, 사회적지지가 영향을 준다고 설정된 가설적 모형〈Figure 1〉의 분석 결과 전반적 지수는 자유도 23에 카이자승치 60.17, GFI와 AGFI의 값은 .944, .891였고, NFI와 NNFI의 값은 .8823, .7932 이었다. 그러나 세부적 지수 중 모성역할 긴장에서 모성역할획득으로의 경로, 일상생활의 시간적 여유에서 모성역할 획득으로의 경로, 아기 기질에서 모성역할 획득으로의 경로의 고정지수가 절대치 2에 미치지 못하여, 세 경로계수를 영(0)으로 고정시킬 필요가 있었다. 따라서 더 간명하며 부합도가 좋은 모형을 찾기 위하여 가설적모형에서 고정지수가 낮은 경로 부터 고정시켜 나가 세경로(모성 역할 긴장에서 모성역할 획득, 일상생활의 시간적 여유에서 모성역할 획득, 아기 기질에서 모성역할획득)를 고정시킨 수정 모형 의 PFI (간명도)가 .5986으로서 가설적모형의 PFI(간명도) .5636보다 커 부합도 를 손상하지 않고 더 간명한 모형으로 나타났다. 수정모형 의 고정 지수를 살펴 본 결과 절대 치 2에 미치지 못하는 경로는 나타나지 않았다. 공변량구조분석 결과 나타난 변인간의 관계를 보면 가) 모성역할 긴장은 사회적 지지가 많을수록(Lisrel Estimates=-1.591), 아기 기질이 순하다고 생각할수록(Lisrel Estimates=-.266), 일상생활의 시간적 여유가 많을수록(Lisrel Estimstes=-1.771) 낮았고, 나) 모성역할 획득은 사회적 지지가 많을수록(Lisrel Estimates=1.120) 잘 되었다.