The purpose of this study lies in figuring out what differences father and mother hold in parenting self-efficacy, a parental expectation and judge on their performing competence as the parents, and examining the relationship between parents' parentin...
The purpose of this study lies in figuring out what differences father and mother hold in parenting self-efficacy, a parental expectation and judge on their performing competence as the parents, and examining the relationship between parents' parenting self-efficacy and children's self efficacy & social competence, and seeking how the parenting self-efficacy affects their offspring in childhood in self-efficacy and social competence.
Following are the questions this study investigated
1. Is there any differences in parent's parenting self-efficacy depending on father and mother?
2. What is the relationship between parent's self-efficacy and children's self-efficacy?
3. What is the relationship between parent's parenting self-efficacy and children's social competence?
4. What is the relationship between children's self-efficacy and their social competence?
A questionnaire was carried out from November 20, 2009 to December 27, 2009 for this study with 480 children aged 4~5 and their parents living in Busan metropolitan city. 360 copies out of 480 were collected and among them, those which is incomplete in response, omitted in responses, and from single parent family were excluded leaving 312 pieces of parental questionnaire and 312 pieces of children's questionnaire which were used for final analysis. Parenting efficacy test, children's self-efficacy test, children's social competence were surveyed as the measurement tool.
Following are the conclusion based on the analyzed and discussed results to the questions fixed for the study
First, the result of inquiring for any differences in parenting self-efficacy depending on father and mother showed a significant difference in the statistics in communicative competence, learning guidance, discipline competences.
Second, in the relation between parental parenting self-efficacy and children's self-efficacy, maternal parenting self-efficacy related closely to the children's self-efficacy more than that of paternal parenting self-efficacy, and maternal parenting self-efficacy correlated wholly with children's self-efficacy while parental parenting self-efficacy didn't much correlate with children's cognitive area.
Third, in the relationship between parental parenting self-efficacy and children's social competence, both the paternal and maternal parenting self-efficacy didn't correlate with children's social competence
Fourth, in the relationship of children's self-efficacy and their social competence, they correlated in most areas, but the children's hypersensitiveness among their social competence didn't correlate with cognitive and physical areas among self-efficacy.