The purpose of the study is to research relations between parents' verbal control modes and preschool children's emotional intelligence. The study has adopted 350 of five years old children and their parents to test them. The study has made use of fol...
The purpose of the study is to research relations between parents' verbal control modes and preschool children's emotional intelligence. The study has adopted 350 of five years old children and their parents to test them. The study has made use of following scales: 1) to measure parents' verbal control modes, Ko Young-ja's scale (2000), which is based on the researches of Bernstein (1971) and Gumperz (1973), after making correction and supplementing, 2) to measure preschool children's emotional intelligence, Kim Kyung-hoi's (1998) preschool children emotional intelligence evaluation scale for teachers. For data analysis, the study has employed frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation, One-way ANOVA and Scheffe verification, Pearson's Correlations, Multiple Regression Analysis, etc using the SPSSWIN Program and the SAS Program.
Major results of the study are:
First, verbal control modes used by parents have been found to be same in position-oriented control mode, person-oriented control mode and imperative control mode, etc in order: Perception and expression of self-emotion of children, which teachers and mothers have perceived, have been found to be the highest. Relations between mother's verbal control modes and preschool children's emotional intelligence perceived by mother are: Mother's verbal control modes have been found to have more influence on emotional intelligence of girls than that of boys.
Second, imperative control mode of father's verbal control modes has been found to have influence on the use of self-emotion of preschool children emotional intelligence. The more father makes use of imperative control mode, the more boys are influenced than girls are: On the other hand, the more mother makes use of imperative control mode, the more girls are influenced than boys are.
Third, there exists statistically significant correlations between preschool children emotional intelligence perceived by mothers and that perceived by teachers. Correlation between mother's perception and teacher's perception concerning preschool children's emotional intelligence is: The boys have been found to have more statistically significant correlation than the girls have. There exists difference between emotional intelligence perceived by mothers and that done by teachers, depending upon the children's gender.