The purpose of this study was to examine a study on the relationship between infants' aggression perceived by mothers and teachers and mother's child-rearing attitude. The effect of general backgrounds of mother and infants on the parenting attitude a...
The purpose of this study was to examine a study on the relationship between infants' aggression perceived by mothers and teachers and mother's child-rearing attitude. The effect of general backgrounds of mother and infants on the parenting attitude and aggression was analyzed.
200 infants, their mothers, and 17 teachers who lived in Hwasung, Kyungi province, participated in this study. The results of the study are summarized as followings:
First, in the mother's parenting attitudes, the affectionate attitude was the highest, followed by the autonomous attitude, the controlling attitude, and rejecting attitude in sequence. As the level of education was higher, the affectionate and autonomous attitudes were high. In the mother group with 2-year college graduation, the rejecting attitude was appeared highest,
Second, mothers recognized the infant's language aggression highest, followed by object aggression, and person aggression, while teachers recognized language, person, and object aggression in sequence.
The result of the infants' aggression recognition according to their general background variables, showed that mothers perceived that person aggression and object aggression were more frequent in boys than girls.
In the result of the infants' aggression recognition according to their general background variables, teachers reported that the infant group of boys and group of 5 years old infants showed the highest person aggression and the group of 4 years old infants showed the highest language aggression. Also, in the case of object aggression, boys had more aggression than girls.
Third, the relationship between mother's child-rearing attitude and mother and teacher's perception of infant aggresssion, was analyzed into three sub-categories. First, there was a negative relationship between mother's affectionate attitude and language aggression and a posivie relationship between rejecting attitude and object, language, and person aggression.
Next, there was no significant relationship between mothers' parenting attitude and infants' aggression perceived by teachers, which was interpreted as why the relationship of mothers-infants could be different from one of teachers-infants.
Finally, there was a positive relationship between mothers' child-rearing attitude and infants's aggression perceived by mothers and teachers in all three sub-categories (object, person, and language aggression). Out of infants' aggression perceived by mothers and teachers, the object aggression was most frequently perceived, followed by person, and language aggression. This perception was appeared as the same in the case of teachers and mothers.
This study has a limitation to generalize the result of this study nationwide in three reasons. First, this study was carried out in only 3 nurseries and 1 kindergarten located in Hwasung city and only 200 infants and their mothers and 17 teachers participated in the study. Second, it was accomplished only with questionnaire method without any qualitative methods like observation and in-depth interview. Third, this study was done in a short period from March to October 2012.