유아의 다중지능과 어머니의 양육태도 = Young Child`s Multiple Intelligence and Mother`s Parenting Styles

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in multiple intelligence according to young child’s gender and age, and to explore the relationship between young child’s multiple intelligence and his/her mother’s parenting styles. The subjects in this study were 181 young children and their mothers. Shearer’s MIDAS for KIDS was used to measure young child’s multiple intelligence, and Schaefer’s MBRI(Maternal Behavior Research Instrument) was employed to measure mother’s parenting styles. The collected data were analyzed by the SPSS program. For the statistical analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and correlational analysis were employed. The brief findings of this study were as follows : First, young child’s gender made significant differences to the areas of multiple intelligence such as musical intelligence, spatial intelligence, linguistic intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, and naturalist intelligence. In these areas, the girls outperformed the boys. Second, young child’s age produced no significant differences in the areas of multiple intelligence except intrapersonal intelligence. Third, young child’s multiple intelligence was significantly correlated to his/her mother’s affective parenting style, autonomous parenting style, and restrictive parenting style in a positive direction. Whereas, there was negative correlation between young child’s multiple intelligence and his/her mother’s rejective parenting style.