This study is designed to shed light on what difference there is between infants' play interaction and their adaptive behavior in accordance with mothers' attitudes to bringing up their children and what difference there in play interaction in accorda...
This study is designed to shed light on what difference there is between infants' play interaction and their adaptive behavior in accordance with mothers' attitudes to bringing up their children and what difference there in play interaction in accordance with the degree of infants' adaptive behavior.
The researcher worked with teachers and 400 mothers with infants aged our and five attending kindergartens located in P City in North Kyongsang Province. The researcher depended on the measuring instrument for infants' interactive play behavior of PIPS(The Penn Interactive Peer Play Scale) by Yi Won-young who adapted Shaefer's MBRI(Maternal Behavior Research Instrument), and the infant educational institutions adaptation questionnaires of Yi Mu-kyeong's PAQ(Preschool Adjustment Questionnaire). The researcher used MANOVA for analyzing data.
The findings can be summarized as follows.
First, an analysis of the differences in infants' play interaction in accordance with mothers' attitudes to fostering shows that self-regulating mothers cause a statistically significant difference in positive behavior factors but that controlling mothers cause a significant difference in negative behavior factors.
Second, there is no significant difference in infants' adaptive behavior in accordance with mothers' attitudes to parenting.
Third, there is a significant difference in infants' play interaction in accordance with infants' adaptive behavior.