Child development is influenced by biological, genetical, physical, and socio-emotional circumstances and it is important to parents' relationship
Accordingly, researches of nurturing behaviors have been studied because parents' nurturing influences ...
Child development is influenced by biological, genetical, physical, and socio-emotional circumstances and it is important to parents' relationship
Accordingly, researches of nurturing behaviors have been studied because parents' nurturing influences child's development. This research is to study influencing factors of mother's nurturing behaviors, and to provide some suggestions for healthy child's development, especially, for mothers who have pre-schoolers.
The purpose of this research is to study how mother's nurturing behaviors can be influenced by nurturing stress, marriage satisfaction, local community support, parents' efficacy.
Research methodology in this study used judgmental sampling as empirical analysis. The sample of the study includes 437 mothers of pre-schoolers who lived in DaeJeon city and sampling proceeded correcting data from 11 child care centers in five counties in DaeJeon city.
The results of the study showed that when mother's nurturing stress and marriage satisfaction are negative, parents' efficacy shows negative.
In addition, it indicated that the more social support from local community, the higher parents' efficacy positively. The most important factors influencing parents' nurturing behaviors were nurturing stress and parents' efficacy. When nurturing stress influences nurturing behaviors, nurturing stress has worked as a motivation for utilizing an alternative
resource and influenced parents' efficacy and nurturing behaviors. And the results showed that correlations between parents' efficacy and other variables including sub-variables were statistically significant.
Recently, the government is considering finding a solution because of falling birth rates. At this time, this study which make a study of the effect of mother's educational behavior is contributed to settle this problem.