The purpose of this study is to investigate the relations among the maternal social competence, involvement behaviors on the children's peer relations and the children's peer competence and to find out the path of the maternal social competence and in...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relations among the maternal social competence, involvement behaviors on the children's peer relations and the children's peer competence and to find out the path of the maternal social competence and involvement behaviors on the children's peer competence affect the children's peer competence and the relative influence.
The subjects of this study were 219 children of two kindergartens and three children's houses located in Seoul and Kyoungki-province and their mothers.
To make things clear, three kinds of questionnaires were applied. Interpersonnal Competence Questionnaire(ICQ), developed by Buhrmester etc, was used to measure mother's social competence. Parental Involvement Checklist(PIC) was used to measure mother's involvement behaviors on children's peer relation. And Children's Peer Competence Scale, developed by Ju Hee Park etc, was used to measure childrens' peer competence.
To analyze the data, the prequency and percentage were produced through the statistics package SAS. The data were analyzed by means, standard deviation, and correlation analysis. And path analysis is also undertaken to find out the path which affects children's peer competence and the relative influence.
The results obtained from this study are as follows.
Firstly, positive variables affecting the son's peer competence are maternal social competence, involvement behaviors on children's peer relations(supervision, advice and support, adjustment and mediation, the total score of involvement behaviors on children's peer relations). Positive variables
affecting the daughter's peer competence is the maternal involvement behaviors on the children's peer relations(monitoring, consultation and support, arrangement and mediation, the total score of the maternal involvement behaviors on children's peer relations).
Secondly, the maternal social competence hadn’t an influence on the children's peer competence directly, but it had an influence through the involvement behaviors on children's peer relations indirectly. That is, the maternal involvement behaviors on children's peer relations mediates between the children's peer competence and the maternal social competence. There was mediator function in the maternal involvement behaviors on the son's peer relations(monitoring, consultation and support, arrangement and mediation, the total score of the maternal involvement behaviors on children's peer relations). The other side, there was mediator function in consultation and support, the total score of the maternal involvement behaviors on children's peer relations of the maternal involvement behaviors on the daughter's peer relations.