The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of parental attitude on elementary schooler emotional intelligence in consideration of gender and geographic region in order to serve as a basis for the development of programs for the improvement...
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of parental attitude on elementary schooler emotional intelligence in consideration of gender and geographic region in order to serve as a basis for the development of programs for the improvement of emotional intelligence.
The research questions were posed as follows:
1. Do child-perceived parental attitudes differ with child gender and geographic region?
2. Do child gender and geographic region make any differences to his/ her emotional intelligence?
3. What are the effects of parental attitude on child emotional intelligence?
The findings of this study were as follows:
First, regarding parental attitude, the students' perception of paternalistic-recipient attitude and rejecting-regulating attitudes were significantly different. The girl students scored higger in their cognition of paternalistic-recipient attitudes than the boys did, and the boy students got higher mean scores in their perception of rejecting-regulating attitudes. This could be interpreted that the girl students were more sensitive to parental attitudes, and that the boy students were more sensitive to living attitudes and relationship with friends.
Second, concerning emotional intelligence, the girl students outperformed the boys in emotional expression and emotional control. And those from Daegu scored higger in emotional utilization. This fact showed that the girl students expressed and regulated their feelings more sensitively, and that the students from Daegu were more benefited from their surrounding environment and cultural facilities.
Third, the paternalistic-recipient parental attitudes exercised the greatest influence, which indicated that parents should have paternalistic-recipient attitude to elevate their children's emotional intelligence and bring a better life and better interpersonal relations to them.