This study aims to empirically examine the relationships between the parent-child bonding relationships and the children's ego-resiliency. It employs the questionnaire method by which the 310 sixth-year elementary school students were investigated. Th...
This study aims to empirically examine the relationships between the parent-child bonding relationships and the children's ego-resiliency. It employs the questionnaire method by which the 310 sixth-year elementary school students were investigated. The measurement instruments adopted in the study are Parental Bonding Instrument(PBI) and Ego-Resilience Scale(ERS). Collected data are analyzed by the Version 10 of SPSSWIN Program and SAS Program, using many statistical techniques including frequency and percentage, average and standard deviation, T-test, correlation analysis, linear regression analysis and canonical correlation analysis.
The main findings of the study are as follows:
1. For the 6th year students, in total care is perceived as more stronger than overprotection in parents' roles, so we can find that they normally have positive perceptions about parent-bonding relationships. Children's Ego-Resiliency is on average level. In addition, the levels of the children's vitalities and the ability of interpersonal relationships are higher than other sub-areas in the Ego-Resilience Scale. But emotional control is in the lowest. The parent-bonding relationships according to the children's gender show statistically significant differences in maternal overprotection. That is, boys think that they feel more maternal overprotection in comparison with the girls. The levels of children's ego-resiliency according to children's gender show that girls are higher than boys especially in respect with interpersonal relationships. The girls think that they get positive concerns continuously from other people and have a good relationship with them.
2. The relationships between the parent-child bonding relationships and the children's ego-resiliency are significant The children's ego-resiliency has positive relationships between the maternal care and the paternal care, maternal overprotection is negatively related, and paternal overprotection is not related. Children's Ego-Resiliency generally shows high levels of parental care but low levels of maternal overprotection. The maternal overprotection more affects on the sub-areas of the Ego-Resilience Scale rather than the paternal overprotection. Especially, maternal overprotection affects both boys and girls. Therefore, the maternal overprotection means that it may obstruct children's optimism.
According to the findings of children's genders, there are statistically significant differences between the male gender and maternal care, maternal overprotection, and paternal care. And the correlations are found between the female gender and the paternal care and maternal care. Therefore, the parental care such as the paternal care and maternal care for the both genders has positive relationships with children's ego-resiliency. However, there are slight differences for the genders in that boys have negative relationships with the maternal overprotection, compared with girls. In general, there is a remarkable evidence of differences about parent-child bonding relationship by genders that the maternal care more affects boys whereas paternal care more affects girls.
3. In the relationship analysis between the parent-child bonding relationship and the children's ego-resiliency, it is found that the higher the levels of the paternal care and the maternal care are, the higher the levels of children's optimism, vitality, interpersonal relationships are. And the maternal overprotection of boys is on the low level, and the higher the maternal care levels are, the higher the boys' optimistic levels, vitality levels, and interpersonal relationships are higher. But, in the case of girls, the higher the paternal care level is, the higher their optimistic levels, vitality levels, interpersonal relationships are.