The purpose of this study was to identify effects of father's personality and discipline style on young children's sociability. Subjects of this study were 305 fathers of young children aged 3-5 years old attending to 10 kindergartens and child care c...
The purpose of this study was to identify effects of father's personality and discipline style on young children's sociability. Subjects of this study were 305 fathers of young children aged 3-5 years old attending to 10 kindergartens and child care centers in Cheongju city. Data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, Cronbach's α, t-test, Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient using the SPSS 12.0 program, and path analysis was done through using AMOS 7.0. program.
The results of this study were as follows:
First, there was partial difference in father's discipline style according to young children's gender, age, father's age and educational level, and family monthly income.
Second, there was difference in young children's positive and negative sociability according to father's educational level.
Third, father's personality didn't have a direct effect on young children's positive sociability, while openness as father's personality had a direct effect on negative one.
Fourth, father's oppressive corporal punishment as discipline style had a direct effect on young children's positive and negative sociability as well as did it through father's personality characteristics.
Fifth, father's logical explanation as discipline style was directly influenced by openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness of personality. Also, father's logical explanation did not mediate young children's sociability.
Sixth, father's oppressive corporal punishment as discipline style was influenced by neuroticism, openness, and extroversion as father's personality. Remarkably, agreeableness as father's personality had the most important effect on father's oppressive corporal punishment.