The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among children's perceived father/mother attachment, perceived competence and the quality of peer relationship.
In order to achieve the purpose, the following questions were raised :
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among children's perceived father/mother attachment, perceived competence and the quality of peer relationship.
In order to achieve the purpose, the following questions were raised :
First, is there any correlation between children's perceived father/mother attachment and peer relationship?
Second, is there any correlation between children's perceived competence and peer relationship?
Third, what is relative effects of children's perceived father/mother attachment and perceived competence on the quality of peer relationship?
The study was carried out on three hundreds and fifty five(male 116, female 189) fifth graders were sampled in 5 elementary schools which are all in Seoul.
The Parents Attachment part of Armsden and Greenberg's The Inventory of Parents and Peer Attachment was used to measure father/mother attachment. Harter's The Perceived Competence Scale for Children was used to measure children's perceived competence and Mdenlson and Aboud's peer relationship questionnaires were used to measure the quality of peer relationship.
The collected data was analyzed by SPSS 10.0 computer program : Frequency analysis, ANOVA, Scheffe test, and Multiple Regression analysis.
The result of this study can be summarized as follow :
First, the group of students who had higher perceived father attachment showed higher peer relationship. Specially, there was biggest difference of perceived father attachment in the affective domain which is one of the sub-variable of the quality of peer relationship.
Second, the group of students who had higher perceived mother attachment showed higher peer relationship. The difference of the quality of peer relationship according to the mother attachment was smaller than that of the father attachment and had meaningful difference in the conflict domain.
Third, the group of students who had higher perceived competence showed higher quality of peer relationship. This group experienced more competitive in peer relationship than the one who had lower perceived competence.
Fourth, the perceived father attachment had strongest relation with the quality of peer relationship.