The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of mother's separate anxiety and parenting guilt-feeling on parenting behaviors among working and non-working mothers. The subjects of this study were 209 mothers of 12 to 48-months-old children wh...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of mother's separate anxiety and parenting guilt-feeling on parenting behaviors among working and non-working mothers. The subjects of this study were 209 mothers of 12 to 48-months-old children who were attending to kindergartens located in Cheongju city and Jinchun-gun. Collected data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Cronbach's α, t-test, F-test, Pearson's correlation, ANOVA test, and hierarchical regression analysis using SPSS 12.0 program.
The results of this study were as follows:
First, there was no significant differences in separate anxiety, parenting guilt-feeling, and parenting behaviors according to mother's age. Also, there was no significant differences in separate anxiety and parenting guilt-feeling according to mother's educational level. However, it appeared that overprotective parenting behavior of mothers with higher educational level were higher than that of mothers with lower educational level.
Second, it was found that separate anxiety and parenting guilt-feeling had significant effects on their overprotective parenting behavior among nonworking mothers, while separate anxiety, parenting guilt-feeling, and interaction of those two variables had significant effects on their overprotective parenting behavior among working mothers.
Third, it revealed that parenting guilt-feeling had a significant effect on controling parenting behavior among working and nonworking mothers.
Fourth, it was found that parenting guilt-feeling had a significant effect on their rejective parenting behavior among working and nonworking mothers.
Fifth, it was found that separate anxiety and parenting guilt-feeling had significant effects on their responsive parenting behavior among nonworking mothers, while separate anxiety and parenting guilt-feeling had no significant effect on their appropriately responsive parenting behavior among working mothers.