The Purpose of this study was to review the effect of father's child rearing attitude and involvement on their children's self-esteem. The subjects were 386 5th-and 6th-grade primary-school students and 334 their fathers attending at Gyeonggi-do and I...
The Purpose of this study was to review the effect of father's child rearing attitude and involvement on their children's self-esteem. The subjects were 386 5th-and 6th-grade primary-school students and 334 their fathers attending at Gyeonggi-do and Incheon metropolitan city.
As a method to measure father's child rearing attitudes, <Method to Measure Parental Child Rearing Attitudes Perceived by the Child> by Sook Lee was used in this study. Regarding the involvement of father, Kyung-Sook Choi's classification of the four influence factors, family activities, day-to-day guidance, household affairs, and home education, was used in this study after a certain modification. As a test tool to measure child's self-esteem, the list of self-esteem originally made by Coopersmith and later standardized by Jong-Gu Kang was used in this study after a certain modification.
First, regarding father's child rearing attitudes, there was a significant difference between male and female child in paternalistic attitudes and rejecting-authoritative attitudes. Female child perceived the father more paternalistic than male child did, and male child perceived the father more rejecting-authoritative than female child did.
Second, family activities increased as the father's education level and income were higher, and as his job was more professional. Father's involvement in household affairs increased as the father's income was higher and when the mother had a full-time employment.
Third, the degree of child's self-contempt increased as the number of siblings was smaller and the father was younger. On the other hand, the satisfaction degree of child's interaction with others increased as the number of siblings was smaller, the father's job was more professional and his income was higher. The only child in the family and the child in a nuclear family were shown with more desirable leadership and higher popularity.
Fourth, regarding the correlation between the father's child rearing attitudes perceived by the child and perceived by the father, paternalistic attitudes had significant relations with family activities, day-to-day guidance, and home education. On the other hand, father's rejecting-authoritative attitudes were shown with insignificant relation with the father's involvement.
Fifth, the child who perceived the father as paternalistic was shown with low degree of self-contempt, high degree of interaction with others, and high degree of popularity and leadership.