The purpose of this study was to explore socio-demographic factors, personality factors, socio-psychological factors, and relationship factors related to happiness of young children's fathers. Subjects of this study were fathers who had 3, 4 and 5 y...
The purpose of this study was to explore socio-demographic factors, personality factors, socio-psychological factors, and relationship factors related to happiness of young children's fathers. Subjects of this study were fathers who had 3, 4 and 5 years old children attending childcare centers in Cheonju city. Data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, Cronbach's ?, t-test, F-test, Scheffe post-hoc test, Pearson's correlation, and hierarchial regression to identify the effects of socio-demographic factors, personality factors, socio-psychological factors, and relationship factors on happiness such as subjective happiness, global life satisfaction, the meaning of life, positive emotion, and negative emotion.
The results of this study were as follows:
First, marital intimacy became low when the father's age got old and family monthly income was low, whereas father's satisfaction of economic status was high when family monthly income was high.
Second, father's general life satisfaction became high as his educational level and his wife's one became high. Also, as family monthly income got higher, the more father's subjective well-being, the meaning of life, and positive emotion were.
Third, father's subjective well-being was predicted by father's extroversion of personality, job satisfaction, satisfaction of economic status, marital intimacy, and relationship with child. Marital intimacy was the strongest predictor of father's subjective well-being.
Fourth, father's global life satisfaction was associated with occupational status, family monthly income, father's extroversion of personality, satisfaction of economic status, marital intimacy, and relationship with child. Father's global life satisfaction was explained by satisfaction of economic status the most.
Fifth, father's meaning of life was related to father's educational level, father's extroversion of personality, job satisfaction, satisfaction of economic status, marital intimacy, and relationship with child. Father's meaning of life was explained by relationship with child the most.
Sixth, father's positive emotion was predicted by father's extroversion of personality, job satisfaction, satisfaction of economic status, marital intimacy, and relationship with child. Extroversion of personality was the strongest predictor for father's positive emotion.
Seventh, neuroticism of personality and marital intimacy were related to father's negative emotion, and neuroticism of personality was the strongest predictor for father's negative emotion.
In conclusion, the findings of this research provide the fundamental source for increasing father's happiness which can be used to establish the educational programs, counseling, and policy on general public's happiness.