The purpose of this study was to examine effects of mother's projective parenting on college student' separation-individuation and interpersonal problems. The study ultimately intended to provide various suggestion which can be applied for college stu...
The purpose of this study was to examine effects of mother's projective parenting on college student' separation-individuation and interpersonal problems. The study ultimately intended to provide various suggestion which can be applied for college student' education and counseling. Subjects of this study consisted of 526 college students from six different four-year-course college in Daejon-city, Cheongju-city, Chungcheongnam-do and Chungcheongbuk-do. Data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, Cronbach's α, factor analysis, t-test, F-test with Scheffe post-hoc test and Pearson's correlation using SPSSWIN 18.0 program. The test of model was done with analysis of correlational matrix in AMOS 18.0 package using a path analysis.
The results of this study were as follows:
First, there was statistical differences in mother's projective parenting according to college student' gender and mother's educational levels.
Second, there was statistical differences in college student' interpersonal problems according to college student' gender.
Third, both male and female college students, it appeared that mother's projective overexpectation and projective overprotection had a direct effect on self-isolation. For male college students, projective overexpectation and projective overprotection had effects on self-fusion while projective overcontrol, projective overexpectation and projective overprotection had effects on female's self-fusion.
Forth, both male and female college students, it appeared that self-fusion had a direct effect on accommodative interpersonal problems.
Fifth, for male college students, it appeared that self-isolation and self-fusion had direct effects on resistant interpersonal problems. However, self-isolation, self-fusion and projective overprotection had direct effects on resistant interpersonal problems of females.
Sixth, both male and female college students, it appeared that self-isolation and self-fusion had directly influenced on avoidant interpersonal problems.
Seventh, for male college students, it appeared that self-isolation had a direct effect on apathetic interpersonal problems. For female college students, self-isolation and projective overprotection had effects on apathetic interpersonal problems.
Eighth, self-fusion was the strongest effector on accommodative interpersonal problems and resistant interpersonal problems of male and female college students whereas self-isolation was the strongest effector on avoidant interpersonal problems and apathetic interpersonal problems.
As a result, the notable outcome of this study was that college student’ separation-individuation is fully mediated mother’s projective parenting and college students’ interpersonal problems. Also, this study suggest that college students separation-individuation was very important because it influenced interpersonal problems strongly.