The objective of this study is to provide fundamental materials and raise the awareness of the importance of desirable parent-child communication, by surveying the sociality and strategies that a juvenile uses in settling conflicts with friends, accor...
The objective of this study is to provide fundamental materials and raise the awareness of the importance of desirable parent-child communication, by surveying the sociality and strategies that a juvenile uses in settling conflicts with friends, according to the parent-child communication pattern.
The subjects of the survey were 288 6th grade students who lived with their parents and went to 1 of 3 elementary schools in Jeon-ju. This group was composed of 147 boys and 141 girls.
The test that was conducted in the survey, was tool for examining the type of parent-child communication. PAC(Parent-Adolescent Communication), which was developed by Olsen and Barnes(1982), altered by Kim Yun-hui(1989) and used by Ryu Bong-ryeol(2004), was reconstructed as a 5-scale index for the survey.
The psychological social maturity index, developed by Seo Bong-yeon and Hwang Sang-min(1993), and reconstructed by Jo Sung-yeon(1996), was used to determine the sociality of the child, after amending ambiguous contents. Also, the conflict settlement strategy index for teenagers, developed by Lee Eun-hye, Go Eun-ju, O Won-jeong, and altered by Bae Seon-yeong(2000) for use on 4~6 grade students, was used to measure the sociality of the child.
The data collected from the survey was coded and processed by the SPSS 14.0 statistics software for verification and producing the product-moment correlation coefficient. Also, F-test, and Scheff? verification was applied.
The results are summarized as the following.
Firstly, there weren't any differences in parent-child communication patterns depending on the sex of the child, but there were significant gaps in sociality and conflict settling strategies. Boys had higher 'confidence in the evaluation of others' than girls did, and girls used 'compromise and cooperation' more often in settling conflicts with peers.
Secondly, the child tends to show more sociality when the openness of father-child and mother-child communication patterns were higher. The sociality of the child according to the consistency of parent-child communication patterns, rated higher in all subdivisions when the pattern was open rather then problematic.
Thirdly, 'compromise and cooperate', 'evasion', 'domination' strategies were favored when the openness of parent-child communication was high, and cases where 'compromise and cooperate' strategies were used decreased where the father-child communication pattern was problematic, and 'compromise and cooperate' and 'evasion' strategies were used less where the mother-child communication pattern was problematic. Concerning the consistency of parent-child communication, the ?compromise and cooperation' strategy was favored when both parents were open, and the 'evasion' strategy was favored when both parents where open, rather than problematic. Also, the 'evasion' strategy was used more often, only when the mother-child communication pattern was problematic.
In colligation, the results of this study indicate that there is a significant difference between the sociality and conflict settlement strategies of senior grade students according to the parent-child communication pattern.
The domestic environment where the child can freely communicate with the parents, has a positive effect on his sociality and the process of selecting a conflict settlement strategy with his peers, but unconditional acceptance and over protective behavior may induce the child to make positive and negative choices at the same time. Therefore, the parent should understand the importance of their role in guiding the child to adapt to the society, and improve his relationship with peers, and apply advisable communication skills to help child.