Recently, there have been growing concerns over social problems related to overprotective parenting; however, few studies have been conducted on how overprotectiveness affects children in their teenage years. The aim of this study was to see whether o...
Recently, there have been growing concerns over social problems related to overprotective parenting; however, few studies have been conducted on how overprotectiveness affects children in their teenage years. The aim of this study was to see whether overprotective parenting may have possible impact on teenage girls’ self-control.
To reach the goal of the study, 245 students, consisting of 1st and 2nd graders in girls’ middle schools in Seoul, got tested by K-POS and asked about parenting styles of their parents. In experimental group, whose mothers are overly protective, 25 students in top 10 percent were assigned whereas 25 other students in the normal distribution were selected as control group. Four areas, such as impulse control, cognitive control, behavior control and emotion control, which are representative of self-control, were measured by experimental approach of behavior and the differences found in these two groups were compared.
All statistical analyses used SPSS statistics 21.0 and the independent t test compared differences between the groups.
The study results reported that except for emotion control experiment, experimental group has less ability of exercising self-control than control group. Hence, it is concluded that when mother is highly overprotective, teenage daughter’s self-control decreases relatively.
Based on the findings, meanings and constraints of this study and suggestions for a follow-up study are to be discussed.