The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of factors related to child abuse reporting of mothers and kindergarten teachers.
Research questions were;
1. Whether there are statistically significant differences in the perception of child a...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of factors related to child abuse reporting of mothers and kindergarten teachers.
Research questions were;
1. Whether there are statistically significant differences in the perception of child abuse, child abuse reporting system, and the reporting intention according to demographic variables of mothers and kindergarten teachers?
2. What are the influences of demographic variables and factors related to the reporting systems on mothers' and teachers' child abuse reporting intention?
The subjects of this study involved total of 159 mothers and 154 teachers drawn from 10 kindergartens annexed to primary schools in Chung-Buk province. Data were analyzed with Chronbach's α, frequency, t-test, correlation, multi-regression analysis using SPSS program.
The results were as follows:
First, there were statistically significant differences in the perception of child abuse, child abuse reporting system, and the reporting intention according to demographic variables of mothers and kindergarten teachers. Mothers were more sensitively responded to child neglect and emotional abuse than teachers. In terms of recognizing child abuse reporting system which consists of knowledge, trust, and obstruction related to the system, all factors related to the child abuse reporting system were different from mothers and teachers. Not only did teachers showed greater level of the knowledge related to the reporting system but also greater level of the trust on the system than mothers. Mothers tended to put more weight on the obstruction factors related to the reporting system than teachers. However, there was no statistically significant difference in child abuse reporting intention between mothers and teachers.
Second, those variables such as knowledge, trust, and obstruction related to child abuse reporting system and mothers' age explained the variance of mothers' child abuse reporting intention. When mothers had greater level of knowledge and trust of the reporting system which let them expect reported children would be properly served on the system, their intention for the reporting was more likely to rise. The group of mothers who were older than the others reported higher level of reporting intention than younger ones.
Those variables such as career, marriage, trust in reporting, and recognition of child abuse reporting system explained the variance of teachers' child abuse reporting intention. Teachers with more than 10 years of career showed higher level of the reporting intention than those who with less than 10 years. Married teachers presented higher level of the reporting intention than the single. Teachers who recognized the effect of child abuse reporting showed greater level of child abuse reporting intention.