The purpose of this study was to explore that the relationship between mothers' language pattern in home and the children's social development, and to be sure mothers' language pattern is very important for children's social development. In order to a...
The purpose of this study was to explore that the relationship between mothers' language pattern in home and the children's social development, and to be sure mothers' language pattern is very important for children's social development. In order to actualije the purpose of this study, problems of this study were specified as follows
1) In what shape do mothers' language pattern and children's sociality apear?
2) To what does mothers' language pattern and child's sociality relate?
3) To what does mothers' language pattern and mothers' academic carear relate, and mother's job or nonjob?
4) To what does mother's language pattern according to mothers' academic career and children's sociality relate, and mothers' job or nonjob?
Subject of this study was sampled elementary school children 216 persons with stratified random in Gawang-Ju megalopolis. The instruments of this study were the mothers' language pattern inventory which mixed the mothers' language pattern made by Lee Hyen-Joo(1990) and Lee Young Wha(1998), and children's sociality inventory made by Hn In-Ja(1988).
Data were treated with using Descriptive, F-test and x^(2)-test of SPSS/PC'
Majors findings of this study are s follows :
1) The order of mother's language pattern which mother's use freely language pattern is personal control, order control, status contort language pattern and the order of children's social development cretivity, responsivility, tooperationspirit, spirit of independence.
2) The order of effect on children's spirit of independence, responsibility, sociality is the first mothers' personal control, mothers' order control and mothers' status control language pattern.
3) There is no difference in mothers' language patterns among mothers' academic career and mothers' having job or not.
4) The mothers' having higher academic career encourage children for responsibity, planning, self-expression and the mothers' having job encourage children for spirit of independence, cooperation, sociality, self-requlation and planning.
According to the results of this study, the conclusion of this study is that mothers' language pattern, especially mothers' personal language pattern is very important for childrens social development but this researcher assume that children's social development is influenced with the other variances. So it would be better to study the childrens social development with the multiple demension.