This study has the purpose to know whether the image of a father which child would feel through a type of communication with his or her father is different in accordance with children's age and sex.
The types of the communication are divided into tw...
This study has the purpose to know whether the image of a father which child would feel through a type of communication with his or her father is different in accordance with children's age and sex.
The types of the communication are divided into two types, affirmative type and negative type and the images of a father are divided into five types, a respectable father type, a wife-loving father type, a generous father type, an always-scolding father type, and a workacholic father type so that the relationship between the types of communication and the types of the images of a father is examined. And whether the mutual ralations between the two groups of the types are different in accordance with children's age and sex is also researched.
The propositions for this study are set up as follows.
Ι. Are their differences of the images of a father in accordance with the children's age and sex?
Ⅱ. The relations between the types of communication and the image of a father.
Ⅱ-ⅰ. What relations do the types of communication have to the image of a
father?
Ⅱ-ⅱ. In accordance with the children's sex, do the relations between the factors
of the types of communication with a father and the factors of the types of
the image of a father have a difference?
Ⅱ-ⅲ. In accordance with the chilren's age, do the relations between the two
types have a difference?
244 third grade and 265 sixth grade elementary students were taken s the subjects of this study. For the examination of the types of the communications, only the standard 'on father' as used among the standards which was once corrected properly for children and used by Nam, Hyunjoo(1996) and had reliability and validity. The corrected standards come from the Min, Hyeyoung's standrads(1990), which were translated by her from the PACI(Parent-Adolescence Communication Inventory) of Olson & Barnes(1982). For the examination of the children's images of a father, referring to 'A stud of the children's thoughts of adults'(1992) of the juvenile research institute, this researcher selected the only items on 'The images of a father' from 'The image of adults in children's thoughts' and corrected them to the level for children and used them after having reliability and validity through the pre-examinations.
In the analysis of the collected data, SAS program is used so that the average, the standard deviation, a factor analysis, the two-way ANOVA, the pearson corelation coefficient analysis, the canonical corelation analysis are used.
The summary of this examination can be shown as follows.
First, the children each has meaningful and different images of their fathers in accordance with their age and sex. When the differences are examined in detail, in the respectable father type, there is a meaningful difference in accordance not with the children's sex but with age, that is, the third grade students could be said to respect their father more than the sixth grade students do. In the wife-loving father type, there is no meaningful difference in accordance with the chidren's sex and age. In the generous father type, no meaningful difference in accordance with the children's sex and age. In the generous father type, no meaningful difference in accordance with the children's sex but with children's age, so it could be said that the third grade students think their fathers to be more generous ones than the sixth grade students do. In the always-scolding father type, no difference in accordance with the children's age but with the children's sex, so it could be said that boys think that their fathers always scold them. Finally in the workaholic father type, the difference is the same and boys think that their fathers always work only.
Second, after examining the relations between the types of communication and the types of the images of a father in the whole subject students, it is thought that the children who communicate affirmatively with their fathers think that their fathers are generous and the children who communicate negatively with their father think that their fathers always scold them. Also, it is examined that the affirmative communication factor is connected with the image of a generous father and the negative communicaion factor is connected with the image of an always-scolding father.
Third, the mutual relation between the group of factor in communication with a father and the group of factor in the images of a father is different in accordance with children' s sex. In other words, in both sexes the degree of relation is high in the mutual relation between the affirmative communication and the image of a generous father and the degree also highest in the relation between the negative communication and the image of an always-scolding father. The result of the canonical corelation analysis also shows that, in both sexes, the degree of relation is high in the mutual relation between the affirmative communication and the image of a generous father and the degree also highest in the relation between the negative communication and the image of an always-scolding father.
Finally, in accordance with children's age, there is a difference in the mutual relation between the types of communication with a father and the types of the images of a father. That is, for both of the 암ree grade and the sixth grade students the affirmative communication has much relations with the image of a generous father and in the image of a workaholic father, third grade students have a meaningful relation not with the affirmative communication but with the negative communication. The result of the canonical corelation analysis of the factors in the types of the images of a father and communication by age shows that the affirmative communication has much relation with the image of a generous father but in the wife-loving father type, third grade students has more relation than sixth grade students. In the negative communication type, the third grade students think the image of an always-scolding father most frequently, the workaholic father next and the sixth grade students think the image of the always-scolding father most frequently, the wife-loving father next, and the workaholic father last.