This research was to examine relationships between mother's personality and child's temperament and overprotective/controlling parenting behavior. Also, this study was to investigate whether or not child's temperament plays moderating roles between th...
This research was to examine relationships between mother's personality and child's temperament and overprotective/controlling parenting behavior. Also, this study was to investigate whether or not child's temperament plays moderating roles between the mother's personality and the overprotective/controlling parenting behavior.
In order to find out, 285 mothers of 4-6 year old children who attending 12 kindergartens and nursery schools in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do district were selected to be subjects of a questionnaire, and data was collected. The mother's personality in this research is based on Eysenck Personality Questionnaire(EPQ) written by Eysenck and Eysenck(1975) with Lee, Hyun-Su(1985) standardized corresponding to Koreans, and was measured using a standard scale of Soh, Eon-Ju(2001). The child's temperament scale referenced on the RITQ(Revised Infant Temperament Questionnaire) which PTQ(Parent Temperament Questionnaire)and Mcdevitt(1978) developed based on Thomas and Chess(1997), and the collected data from the mothers' interview to measure the standard using the scale of Heo, Tae-Hee(2008) who used the research-use temperament calming scale produced by Cheon, Hee-Young(1992). The mother's overprotective parenting behavior was measured with the scale of Soh, Eon-Ju(2001) based on the Parental Protectiveness scale of Doh and Falbo(1999), and the controlling parenting behavior is based on Thomas and Chess(1977), and scales modified by Cheon, Hee-Young(1992) to fit national standards were used by Heo, Tae-Hee(2008). Data were analyzed by pearson's correlation coefficients, multiple regression analysis and hierarchical regression analysis.
The main results of the research question is summarized as follows:
First, the mother's babying behavior was increased as mother's neuroticism increased. And as the extraversion was decreased with high neuroticism the mother's sheltering and controlling behavior was increased.
Secondly, as the mother was aware of the low adaptability and reactivity of the children, and as the mother was aware of the high physiological regularity there were more babying behaviors. Also, there were more sheltering and controlling parenting behavior as the mother thought the child had low adaptability and high activity.
Thirdly, the child's adaptability mediated on the influence of the mother's extraversion on the controlling parenting behavior. In other words, children with low adaptability, the controlling parenting behavior was high with low extraversion of the mother, and children with high adaptability, there were no differences of the mother's extraversion level.
Lastly, looking at the relative influence on the mother's personality and child's temperament as the only variable of the overprotective/ controlling behavior, the variable that best predicts the overprotective parental behavior related to lower levels of child's adaptability, and the variable that best predicts the controlling parenting behavior related to higher levels of mother's neuroticism.
This research found that the mother's personality and child's temperament influences the overprotective/controlling parenting behavior, and child's temperament plays moderating roles poorly between the mother's personality and the overprotective/controlling parenting behavior
Through this, this research concentrated on the cause of the overprotective/controlling parenting behavior and there exists academic - pragmatic meanings in terms of the expansion of the understanding.