The purpose of this study is to identify the the relationship beetween parents' child-rearing attitudes and children's prosocial behavior.
The questions of this study are as follows:
1. Are there relationships between parents' child-rearing attitude...
The purpose of this study is to identify the the relationship beetween parents' child-rearing attitudes and children's prosocial behavior.
The questions of this study are as follows:
1. Are there relationships between parents' child-rearing attitudes as perceived by their offsprings and the children's prosocial behavior?
2. Are there any differences in parents' child-rearing attitudes by sex or region of the children and by occupation and educational background of their parents?
3. Are there any differences in children's prosocial behavior by sex or region of the children and by occupation and educational background of the parents?
To carry out this study, 206 fifth graders were sampled randomly in Chonnam and Kwangju.
The instruments used are the parents' child-rearing attitude test and the child's prosocial b havior test developed on the basis of the self report scale by Eisenberg (1989).
The data were analyzcd SPSS/PC^(+) program and group differences in scores were testified by chi-square test.
The results of the stucly are as follows:
1. Children of parent.; whose child-rearing attitudes are more affection-autonomy achievement-society oriented tend to exhibit more prosocial behavior (p<.01).
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(1) There are no significant differences beetween boys and girls.
(2) There is a significant difference by the region(p<,01), in that parents living in the large city of Kwangju appeare to be more affection-autonomy-achievement-society riented than are parents living in the town of Haenam.
(3) There is a highly significant difference in parents' child-rearing attitudes by the father's occupation(p<,001). Fathers who are in management or professional occupations
tend to be more affection-autonomy-achievement-society oriented.
(4) However, fathers whose wives are not gainfully employed are more affectionate(p< .05).
(5) Fathers' child-rearing attitudes sbow a positive relation by their occupation (p<.001), whereas mothers' attitudes show no significant correlation with their husbands' occupation. The higher the fathers' educational background, the more they appeare to be affection- autonomy- achievement-society oriented. Specifically, the higher the fathers' educational background, the greater the socially oriented tendancy of both parents.
(6) There is a difference in parents' child-rearing attitudes as perceived by their children by their mother's educational background That is, the higher the mothers' education, the more affection-autonomy-achievement-society oriented are both parents.
3. There are no significant differences in the children's prosocial behavior by child's sex or region or by the occupation or educational background of the parents.
The conclusions of this study are as follows:
1. There is a statistically significant difference in children's prosocial behavior by their parents' child-rearing attitudes
2. There are significant differences in parents' child-rearing attitudes by the region where the children lived and by the occupation or educational background of the parents. However, there are no significant differences by the sex of the child.
3, There are no significant differences in children's prosocial behavior by the sex or region or according to the occupation or educational background of their parents.
According to the above results, when children perceive that their parents have affection autonomy-achievement-society oriented child-rearing attitudes, they tend to show more positive prosocial behavior, Therefore, there are educationally meaningful implications in parents' child-rearing attitudes as perceived by their children.