The main purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between mother's beliefs, ego-resilience and self- regulation of Young Children. The subject of the study were one hundred sixty six 5-7 year-old children and their mother's in Seoul.
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The main purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between mother's beliefs, ego-resilience and self- regulation of Young Children. The subject of the study were one hundred sixty six 5-7 year-old children and their mother's in Seoul.
The instruments used for this study were John & Martin(1985)'s questionnaire that has been used by ETS(Educational Test Service) to measure "mother's beliefs", a questionnaire's based on Block and Block(1980)'s "The California Child Q-set(CCQ)" to measure the children's ego-resilience for their mother and a questionnaire based on Eisenberg(1988)'s "Temperamental Scale" to measure the self-regulation of children.
To analyse research questions, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, F-test and Pearson's correlation had been used.
The major findings were as follows:
First, the learning social skill was the highest in mother's belief tendency according to situation. Among 166 mothers, 37.3% were classified as direct authoritative·diverting·others, 28.3% were classified as rational authoritative, 6.0% were classified as distancing. That is, most Korean mothers have a little of distancing response. Also there was no statically difference in mother's beliefs according to child's sex, mother's education and occupation.
Second, there was no statically significant difference in children's ego-resilience according to child's sex, mother's education and occupation.
Third, there was no statically significant difference in children's self-regulation according to child's sex, mother's education and occupation.
Forth, children's ego-resilience was significantly related with self- regulation.