This study aims to identify rearing attitudes of middle and lower class parents, the social attitudes of infants, and the relation between them.
It targeted 196 infants from two private and four public kindergartens in Gwangju and Yeosu and their par...
This study aims to identify rearing attitudes of middle and lower class parents, the social attitudes of infants, and the relation between them.
It targeted 196 infants from two private and four public kindergartens in Gwangju and Yeosu and their parents, and they were interviewed using PARQ(parent acceptance-refusal Questions) to analyse parents' rearing attitudes. It used the social ability investigation tool used by Kim Jeong-ah to measure the social abilities of infants The collected data for the study were analysed using the measuring tools of frequency, percentage, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and correlation.
The results of the study were presented as follows:
First, there was a significant difference between rearing attitudes of the middle-class parents and low-class ones. The middle-class parents had more acceptable attitude than the low-class parents. However, low-class parents had more refusing attitude than middle-class parents.
Second, there was a significant difference in their social abilities between middle-class infants and low-class infants. It was demonstrated that the middle class infants had higher social abilities.
Third, there was no significant difference between the rearing attitude of middle class parents and infants' social abilities.
Fourth, for the relation between rearing attitude of low-class parents and infants' social abilities, it was demonstrated that the more parents were agressive and hostile, the lower infants social cooperation and abilities.