The purpose of this study is to analyze multi-cultural mothers’ rearing attitude according to their personal variables and the relationships among multi-cultural mothers' rearing attitude, young children's language ability and social ability.
The re...
The purpose of this study is to analyze multi-cultural mothers’ rearing attitude according to their personal variables and the relationships among multi-cultural mothers' rearing attitude, young children's language ability and social ability.
The research questions were as follows:
1. Is multi?culture mothers’ rearing attitude different according to mothers’ personal variables?
2. Is multi?culture mothers’ rearing attitude related with their children’s language ability?
3. Is multi?cultural mothers’ rearing attitude related with their children’s social ability?
The subjects were 107 three- four- five?year?old children and 107 their mothers at public kindergartens in Jeollanam?do.
To measure mothers’ rearing attitude, Maternal Behavior Research Instrument (MBRI), which was developed by Schaefer (1959), translated by Lee, Won?Yeong (1959) and revised by Song, Ho?Gyeong (2004), was used. To measure children's language ability, Korean?Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (K?WPPSI) was used, which was translated by Park, Hye?Won, Gwak, Geum?Joo and Park, Gwang?Bae (1996). To measure children's social ability, ‘Social Ability Scale’ developed by Woo, Soo?Gyeong (2002) and revised by Yun, Hyang-Geum (2005), was used.
To examine the effects of this study, collected data from one?way ANOVA, Scheffe’s test and Pearson’s correlation analysis was analyzed with the SPSS program.
The results of this study were as follows:
First, multi?cultural mothers’ rearing attitude was not significantly different according to their mothers’ personal variables such as academic age, qualification, occupation, nationality, years of entrance, marriage satisfaction index, child satisfaction index, a means of communication and number of children. However, in the result of a posttest on mothers' personal variables, when child satisfaction index is more middle than high, mothers’ rearing attitude was more rejective. In the consequence of a means of communication, mothers using the main language-Korean and their mother tongue simultaneously were more autonomous than those using the main language-their mother tongue and Korean in rearing attitude. In addition, the latter had more rejective rearing attitude than the former.
Second, in the results of analyzing the correlation between multi?cultural mothers’ rearing attitude and their young children’s language ability, the two factors were little correlated with each other. But inspecting the sub-factors, mothers’ autonomous rearing attitude showed a low correlation with ‘common sense’ and ‘understanding’ among the sub?factors of language ability, and mothers’ affective rearing attitude showed a low correlation with ‘understanding.’ But mothers’ rejective rearing attitude showed a negative correlation with ‘common sense’ and ‘understanding.’
Third, in the results of analyzing the correlation between multi?cultural mothers’ rearing attitude and their young children’s social ability, the two factors were little correlated with each other as a whole. But examining the sub-factors, mothers’ autonomous rearing attitude showed a low correlation with young children’s social ability and showed a low correlation with ‘cooperativeness’ among a sub?factor of it.
In a conclusion, multi?cultural mothers’ rearing attitude was not significantly different according to their mothers’ personal variables, but in the results of posttest, the mothers’ rejective rearing attitude affected child satisfaction index and their autonomous and rejective rearing attitude affected a means of communication. In addition, there was no statistically significant correlation among multi·cultural mothers’ rearing attitude, their young children’s language ability and social ability.