This study examines the effects of the mother's facilitative communication and the child's emotional intelligence on social competence. The goal of this study is to understand the importance of mother's facilitative communication in her conversatio...
This study examines the effects of the mother's facilitative communication and the child's emotional intelligence on social competence. The goal of this study is to understand the importance of mother's facilitative communication in her conversation with her child.
The subjects of this study were 474 students in the 5^(th) and 6^(th) grade in two elementary schools located in Seoul. In order to measure the level of the mother's facilitative communication for this study, the measurement tool used was that of Jung, Se-Yong(1994), who modified Ma, Jung-Geon's(1998) tool to suit elementary school children. Ma, Jung-Geon(1998) originally based his model on Carkhuff's(1967) Scale. As for the emotional intelligence test, Moon, Yong-Lin 's(1996) model based on salovey and Mayer(1990) for children in grades 3 through 6. Moreover, in order to measure the child's social abilities, the social ability test developed by Park, Kum-Ok(1998) was used.
The collected data was analyzed by SAS statistics program. The frequency and percentage were calculated to investigate the general characteristics of the subjects. To investigate reliability and validity of the measuring instrument, Cronbach's α was calculated. For the each research question, Pearson's correlation, multiple regression and path analysis was used.
The results of the study are as follows.
First, it was found that a mother's facilitative communication have an effect on a child's social competence. In other words, as a mother expresses unconditional respect in her conversations, it was found that adaptation and popularity in the child's interpersonal relations became higher. Moreover, the more genuine the mother's attitude, the higher the child's social participation, and the more specific her terminology, it was found that the child's leadership was higher.
Second, the research showed that a mother's facilitative communication has an effect on the child's emotional intelligence. The more the mother sympathized, the child showed a lower perception of others emotion ability, the more the mother expressed unconditional respect during conversations, it was found that the child's emotion facilitation of thinking ability was high. In addition, the more genuine the mother's attitude, the higher the child's employing emotional knowledge and expression of emotion ability, and the more specific the mother's terminology, it was found that the child's emotion facilitation of thinking ability was high.
Third, as perception of one's emotion ability was higher, sociability, social participation and leadership was found to be higher, while as perception of others emotion ability was higher, sociability, interpersonal adjustment, social participation, leadership, and popularity was found to be higher. When empathy ability was high, interpersonal adjustment ability was high, while regulation of emotion ability was high, sociability, interpersonal adjustment ability, social participation, leadership, popularity were all found to be high. It was also found that interpersonal adjustment ability and popularity was high when emotion facilitation of thinking ability was high.
Forth, by studying which variable best explains a child's a child's social competence among a mother's facilitative communication and the child's emotional intelligence, among the primary factor of social competence, it was found that regulation of emotion had the most effect on a child's sociability, followed by perception of one's emotion, concreteness, genuineness, perception of one's emotion, expression of emotion in their respective orders. As for a child's interpersonal adjustment, regulation of emotion had the most influence, followed by unconditional respect, empathy, perception of others emotion ability, emotion facilitation of thinking, and self disclosure in their respective orders. For social participation, perception of one's emotion had the most impact, followed by regulation of emotion, concreteness, and perception of one's emotion in their respective orders. And for the child's popularity, perception of others emotion had the most effect, followed by regulation of emotion .
Fifth, in observing the path analysis between a mother's facilitative communication and the child's the child's emotional intelligence and a child's social competence, it was found that genuineness developed by perception of one's emotion and expression of emotion had the most impact on sociability. Unconditional respect was found to be developed by regulation of emotion and emotion facilitation of thinking to have an effect on interpersonal adjustment. Moreover, unconditional respect was found to be developed by perception of others emotion , regulation of emotion and emotion facilitation of thinking to have an influence on popularity. And lastly, concreteness was found to be developed by emotion facilitation of thinking to effect popularity.