The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference of children's perceptions of interparental conflicts and parenting attitudes.
The subjects of this study were 314 children 5th and 6th grade in elementary school located in Seoul and Busan:...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference of children's perceptions of interparental conflicts and parenting attitudes.
The subjects of this study were 314 children 5th and 6th grade in elementary school located in Seoul and Busan: Of the 314 children, 100 were in the internalizing symptom group, 63 in the externalizing group, 51 in the mixed symptom group and 100 in the control group.
Children completed the Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale(CPIC: Grych et al, 1992), the Children's Perception of Korean-Youth Self Report(K-YSR: Oh, Kyung-Ja, 2001) and the Children's Perception of Parental Attitude Scale(Lee, Jong-Seung, 1982).
The collected data was analyzed by SPSS computer program: Frequency analysis, t-test and Scheffe test.
To summarize the results of this study by each study problem is as follows;
First, After seeing the 5th and 6th grade children in clinical group, internalizing symptom group holds the first, externalizing symptom group is the second, and the mixed symptom group is the last. The ratio that internalizing symptom group occupies is double than externalizing symptom group, and no particular difference was shown for these three groups in clinical group by gender.
Second, the order of perceived interparental conflicts most frequently and seriously is mixed symptom group, externalizing symptom group, internalizing symptom group and control group.
Third, After seeing the perceived interparental conflicts according to gender, in case of boys, mixed symptom group perceives it most frequently and seriously and externalizing symptom group, internalizing symptom group and mixed symptom group are the next in order. In case of girls, mixed symptom group perceives its frequency and seriousness as the first and the next is internalizing symptom group and the last is control group.
Fourth, After seeing the difference of perceived parenting attitudes according to four groups - internalizing symptom group, externalizing symptom group, mixed symptom group, and control group -, internalizing symptom group and externalizing symptom group perceive it inconsistently, and mixed symptom group out of the four groups perceives it most negatively and inconsistently.
Fifth, After seeing perceived parenting attitudes according to the gender of the four groups - internalizing symptom group, externalizing symptom group, mixed symptom group, and control group -, children perceive the opposite genders parenting attitudes more positively.