The purpose of this study was to examine elementary schoolers' awareness of the parental attitude of their parents and their human relations in consideration of gender and school year, in an effort to determine the influence of their gender and school...
The purpose of this study was to examine elementary schoolers' awareness of the parental attitude of their parents and their human relations in consideration of gender and school year, in an effort to determine the influence of their gender and school year on parental attitude perceived by them and their interpersonal relations and to assist them to build more amicable human relations.
The purpose of this study were 597 students in their fourth, fifth and sixth years from six different elementary schools in the city of Seosan, south Chungcheong province, who included 315 boys and 282 girls.
The collected data were analyzed with SPSS Ver. 10.0 for Windows, and t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlational analysis, multiple regression analysis and Duncan posttest were employed.
The brief findings of this study were as below:
First, as for the influence of gender on perceived parental attitude, the girl students thought their parents had a hostility-control or affection- autonomy attitude than the boy students did.
Second, regarding the impact of gender on human relations, the interpersonal relationship of the girl students was either more positive or more negative than that of the boy students. By school year, the fourth graders had more friendly human relations than the fifth or sixth graders.
Third, concerning connections between perceived parental attitude and human relations, amicable interpersonal relationship was positively correlated to the hostility-control or affection-autonomy variables. Namely, the students who were treated by their parents in a more affectionate and autonomous manner had better human relations. Specifically, the affection-autonomy variable of the fathers had closer correlations to their interpersonal relationship.
The unfavorable human relations had negative correlations to the hostility-control variable. In particular, those who were reared by mothers in a more hostile and controlled way, rather than by fathers, were more inclined to build negative interpersonal relationship.
Fourth, as a result of making multiple regression analysis over connections between parental attitude and friendly human relations, the students who were younger or girls were more affected by parental attitude in terms of amicable interpersonal relations. Specifically, the affection-autonomy variable of the fathers had a greater impact than that of the mothers.
When multiple regression analysis was implemented over connections between parental attitude and negative human relations, the girl students had a stronger inclination toward negative interpersonal relations than the boys. The hostility-control variable exercised a negative influence on unfriendly interpersonal relations.
The findings of this study tended not to be highly reliable, as it relied only on how the students perceived the parental attitude of their parents. If both parents and students are asked to give their opinion on parental attitude, more precise results will be produced. Besides, future research efforts need to identify connections between parental attitude and the interpersonal relations of middle and high school students, and a standardized human relations scale geared toward elementary schoolers is called for.