The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of mother's separate anxiety, parenting guilt feeling and parenting efficacy on children's social ability. Subjects of this study were 215 mothers having 5 to 7-year-old children drawn from 4 kinder...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of mother's separate anxiety, parenting guilt feeling and parenting efficacy on children's social ability. Subjects of this study were 215 mothers having 5 to 7-year-old children drawn from 4 kindergartens and 2 nursery schools located in Ok-cheon. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics, mean-comparison, and Person's correlation by using SPSS 11.0 program as well as through path analysis by using AMOS 5.0 program.
The results were as follows:
First, while mother's parenting guilt feeling and parenting efficacy and children's interpersonal adaptability were different according to mother's education, mother's separate anxiety was not. Compared to mother's with college degree, Mothers with high-school diploma felt greater parenting guilt, smaller parenting efficacy, and children of the mothers had worse interpersonal adaptability. Additionally, working mothers reported greater parenting guilt to their children compared with those who did not work.
Second, mother's separate anxiety directly influenced their parenting guilt, and it indirectly affected parenting efficacy through parenting guilt. Mother's separate anxiety also had an indirect effect on children's social ability through the mediating effects of mother's parenting guilt and parenting efficacy.
Mother's parenting guilt had a direct effect on both their parenting efficacy and children's interpersonal adaptability. Mother's parenting guilt also presented an indirect effect on children's popularity/leadership and social participation through the mediating effect of mother's parenting efficacy. Mother's parenting efficacy, it only had a direct effect on children's social ability.