The purposed of the present study is to investigate about what relationship between emotional intelligence & academic achievement and parents' rearing attitude is, to seek a desirable direction in parents' children rearing and children's learning & li...
The purposed of the present study is to investigate about what relationship between emotional intelligence & academic achievement and parents' rearing attitude is, to seek a desirable direction in parents' children rearing and children's learning & life guidance at a home, and to suggest a positive educational environment. A 600 students of the fourth, fifth and sixth graders at 2 elementary schools located in the Jeju City were sampled, and then, 522 students were finally selected as an object of study.
The "Perceptual test of rearing attitude of parents" made by Lee Jong-seung and Oh Seong-shim(1982) was used as the measurement tool used for measuring parents' rearing attitude sensed by children after amending and complementing it, and an inspection tool for senior graders of an elementary school developed by Moon Yong-lin(1996) based on the emotional intelligence model of Salovey & Mayer(1990) for an emotional intelligence test.
Cronbach's α coefficient and an average & standard deviations were found by using a SPSS 12.0 program and frequency analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson's correlation analysis were carried out for data processing.
The results of the present study are as follows.
First, students appeared to feel like parents' rearing attitude is affectionate, autonomous, achieving and reasonable and they sensed mother's rearing attitude more positively rather than father's rearing attitude.
And affection-hostility to mother's rearing attitude appeared the highest, so this shows that they have a high inclination that senses mother's rearing attitude affectionately. On the other hand, father's rearing attitude appeared lowly in achievement - non-achievement, compared to other rearing attitude.
The emotional intelligence of children was a level that they can recognize, express and control emotion of oneself and other people, and can do empathy to other people well. As a subordinate factor, emotional recognition was the highest, and next, it was in the order of emotional expression and emotional control, and empathy was the lowest. Especially, an average of emotional recognition was very high, compared to other factor. The learning achievements of children highly appeared over 86 marks in an average of all subjects.
Second, there was difference in parents' rearing attitude by background variable of children in accordance with gender, the number of brothers and sisters, and birth order. In an aspect of gender, it appeared that girls student feel mother's rearing attitude affectionately and reasonably, compared to boy students. There was no significant difference in mother's rearing attitude according to the number of brothers and sisters, and it appeared that children with 2 or more than 3 brothers and sisters feel that father's rearing attitude is more affectionate, achieving and reasonable, compared to children with one brother or sister. In an aspect of birth order, the eldest child and the second eldest child feel that father's rearing attitude is more affectionate and reasonable, compared to one child, and it appeared that the eldest, second eldest and third eldest children feel that father's rearing attitude is more achieving, compared to one child. And it appeared that one child in a family feels mother's rearing attitude more autonomously than a child elder than the third eldest child.
The emotional intelligence according to background variables of children showed a significant difference by only gender, and thus it appeared that girls students have a higher level in emotional expression and control than boy students. The learning achievements according to background variables of children had difference according to gender, the number of brothers and sisters, birth order and academic background of parents.
In an aspect of gender, girls students had higher learning achievements in a Korean subject, compare to boy students. In an aspect of the number of brothers and sisters, one child in a family had higher total learning achievements and society subject's learning achievements than children with more than 3 brothers and sisters. In an aspect of birth order, one child in a family, the eldest child and the second eldest child had higher learning achievements than the third eldest child or children younger than the third eldest child. In an aspect of parents' academic background, the learning achievements of all children, who have parents with academic background of more than college graduation, had higher learning achievements than children who have a father with academic background of less than high school graduation.
Third, parents' rearing attitude and emotional intelligence showed significant correlation each other. the parents' rearing attitude has a higher correlation with emotional control ability compared to other factors of emotional intelligence, so it can be known that parents' positive rearing attitude can enhance emotion control ability that control emotion. And the empathy ability among subordinate factors of emotional intelligence has a low correlation with parents' rearing attitude compared to other factors, and especially, it has a low correlation with rationality-irrationality among parents' rearing attitude.
The correlation between parents' rearing attitude and children's learning achievements was low, but it showed a significant correlation except the correlation between mother's rearing attitude and mathematics & science. It showed a high correlation with father's rearing attitude rather than mother's rearing attitude, and the correlation between father's rearing attitude and Korean language appeared the highest.
The correlation between children's emotional intelligence and children's learning achievements was low, but it showed a significant correlation except the relations between empathy and mathematics. On the other hand, Korean language showed a high correlation with emotional intelligence compared to other subjects.