The purpose of this study is to conduct an investigation for the structural relationship among adult attachment towards their parents, parent’s negative emotion, early childhood problem behavior.
First, for a structural analysis of variables influ...
The purpose of this study is to conduct an investigation for the structural relationship among adult attachment towards their parents, parent’s negative emotion, early childhood problem behavior.
First, for a structural analysis of variables influencing parent of childhood in Deagu-City and Gyeongbuk province and others in Korea were surveyed questionnaires from May 21th to Oct 8th in 2013. They answered adult attachment towards their parents scale, SCL-90-R, K-CBCL(1.5-5). A total of 616 parent of childhood responses were used in the final analysis. Through using SPSS 18.0, the mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis showed normal distribution in all variables, and the estimated coefficient of Cronbach alpha showed that the reliability of all the measures used met the standards. A variance-covariance matrix of this sample was analyzed using AMOS 18.0 with the maximum likelihood minimization function. The goodness of fit was evaluated via SRMR, RMSEA, with a 90% confidence interval, CFI, TLI.
The main results were as follows:
Firstly, adult attachment towards their parents, parent’s negative emotion is a significant internal variable directly affecting early childhood externalized problem behavior. Adult attachment towards their parents is a significant internal variable indirectly affecting early childhood externalized problem behavior.
Secondly, adult attachment towards their parents, parent’s negative emotion is a significant internal variable directly affecting early childhood internalized problem behavior. Adult attachment towards their parents is a significant internal variable indirectly affecting early childhood internalized problem behavior.
Thirdly, adult attachment towards their parents directly affects parent’s negative emotion.
As a result of the structural analysis, it was found that the parent’s negative emotion took a role of an intervening variable between adult attachment towards their parents, early childhood problem behavior. Therefore, the parent’s negative emotion reduce was reduced for early childhood problem behavior.
The present study results can provide the basic information for plan and the construction of parent’s education and counseling