The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of the children's attachment to their father and the children's aggressiveness with their self-esteem as a mediating variable. For this purpose, the two questions established are as follows:
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of the children's attachment to their father and the children's aggressiveness with their self-esteem as a mediating variable. For this purpose, the two questions established are as follows:
1. How is the relations of attachment to father, self-esteem and aggressiveness?
2. Does attachment to father influence aggressiveness with mediating effect of self-esteem?
420 sixth grade students in 3 elementary schools in Busan participated in the survey. 393 meaningful surveys were analyzed except 27 unsuitable for this study.
For solving first question, correlation analysis was done for 3 variables. The result is: attachment to father has a positive correlation with self-esteem. Attachment to father has a negative correlation with aggressiveness. And self-esteem has a negative correlation with aggressiveness.
For solving second question, the mediating effect of self-esteem between attachment to father and aggressiveness was identified with the structural equation model. The result is that attachment for father influences aggressiveness and self-esteem partly mediates between attachment to father and aggressiveness.