The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among mother's parenting efficiency, children's self-efficiency and children's social competence. A total of 280 children and their mothers participated in the study. Subjects answered the...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among mother's parenting efficiency, children's self-efficiency and children's social competence. A total of 280 children and their mothers participated in the study. Subjects answered the questionnaires measuring mother's parenting efficacy, children's self-efficacy, and social competence. Correlations and regression analysis were used for data analysis using SPSS 10.
Results from analyses were as follows:
First, parents of upper class showed higher parenting efficacy than lower class counterpart. There was no statistical difference in children's self-efficiency between social class. Furthermore, there also was no statistically significant difference between social class in children's social ability.
Second, mother's parenting efficiency had no effect on children's social ability.
Third, children's self-efficiency had an effect on children's social ability.
In conclusion, there were positive relations between children's self-efficiency and children's social ability, and the cognitive domain of children's self-efficiency explained significantly children's social concern, participation and social cooperation.