부모의 양육태도 및 의사결정유형이 초등학교 자녀의 자아개념에 미치는 영향 = The Influence of Attitude of Child Rearing of Parents and Decision Making Styles in Home on Self - Concept of Elementary School Children

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This study was aimed at figuring out the influence of such independent variables as rearing attitude of parents and decision making styles on self-concept of elementary school`s children, and, furthermore, at examining what kind of aspects this relationship has depending on the age of children. Following questions should be answered in this study; 1. Are there any difference in the self-concept of children in accordance with the rearing attitude of parents(e.g. acceptance-rejection, autonomy control, pressure for achievement)? What kind of trend does this difference have according to the age of children? 2. Are there any difference in the self-concept of children depending on the decision making styles of parents(paternal dominance, maternal dominance, or joint parental dominance)? Does this difference show different trend according to the age of children? 3. Is there any inter-relational effect of decision making styles of parents and their rearing attitude on the development of children`s self-concept? 4. Which of the characteristic factors of parents has the bigger consequence on the development of children`s self-concept? The result of this study were as follows; The factor of acceptance-rejection among those of the parental rearing attitude had a meaningful relationship with the development of the children`s self-concept. In other word, it was assumed that the receptive attitude may exert much stronger influence on formulating a positive self-concept than the denying attitude. This trend had been consistently revealed at the ages ranging from 9 to 15. The parent`s style of decision making was associated with the self-concept of the age group of 9 and 12. It became evident, however, that the decision making style of parents had nothing to do with the self-concept of 15 years old children. It seemed to be little inter-relational effect between parent`s characteristic variables and children`s self-concept. Therefore, it could be concluded that parent`s characteristic factors and children`s self-concept factor was rather independent with each other or least influential than were interrelated. The most influential one of the parent`s 2 factors affecting the development of children`s self-concept was the rearing attitude, followed by decision making style in the second.