The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among perceived mother's overprotection parental child-rearing attitudes, self-esteem and career maturity for adolescents. According to this, this study was to provide fundamental data for ado...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among perceived mother's overprotection parental child-rearing attitudes, self-esteem and career maturity for adolescents. According to this, this study was to provide fundamental data for adolescents' career guidance.
In order to accomplish this purpose, the following subjects were set up :
First, Is the perceived maternal child-rearing practices different from the child's gender?
Second, What are the differences between adolescents' self-esteem and career maturity according to mother's overprotection child-rearing attitudes?
Third, What are the differences between adolescents' self-esteem and career maturity by the child's gender?
To verify this, a survey has been conducted to the 431 subjects who are middle school students in Seoul and data analysis was extracted using SPSS 15.0 program. This study has been conducted to the correlation in order to verify the relation among the main elements. It has been conducted to one-way ANOVA and Repeated MANOVA in order to find these:What are the differences between adolescents' self-esteem and career maturity according to mother's overprotection child-rearing attitudes? and What are the differences between adolescents' self-esteem and career maturity by the child's gender? Using examination materials were the parental child-rearing protective scale developed by Jeong Eun Young(2008), Coopersmith' Self-Esteem Inventory which was translated by Kang Jong Gu(1986) and CMI developed by Im Eun, Jung Yun Kyung and Sang Kyong A(2001).
The results of this study are as follow :
First, Mothers' protectiveness has something to do with their children's gender. In generally male students were more sensitive to mothers' over non-protective attitudes than female students.
Second, the perceived mother's protectiveness is something to do with adolescents' self-esteem. Perceived mother's overprotection parental child-rearing attitudes affect developing self-esteem with negative influence.
Third, the adolescents' self-esteem is something to do with career maturity. The adolescents who had higher perceived mother's overprotection parental child-rearing attitudes than had low perceived adolescents were negative affected with developing self-esteem.
Fourth, there is no differences between adolescents' self-esteem and career maturity by the child's gender.
Fifth, there is a little difference between adolescents' self-esteem and career maturity according to mother's overprotection child-rearing attitudes. A girl student is affected by mother's overprotection parental child-rearing attitudes.
From the above results, the reacher learned that perceived mother's overprotection parental child-rearing attitudes affect children's self-esteem and career maturity. the adolescents need to be independence from parents care and automatically independence. This study is meaningful in view of the fact that perceived mother's overprotection parental child-rearing attitudes affect children's self-esteem and career maturity.
From this above results, if we control group counseling the students of the middle school, we need to run according to the characteristics of girls and boys and various program. Also, perceived mother's overprotection can reduce the level of self-esteem and career maturity. It has an effect on that The parents counsel and the child counsel run together.
Key words : adolescent, over-protection, self-esteem, career maturity