The study looked into the difference in children's dispositions and mothers' receptive attitudes toward children's emotional expressions by children's background variables(gender, birthdate) and mother's sociodemographic variables. The study also exam...
The study looked into the difference in children's dispositions and mothers' receptive attitudes toward children's emotional expressions by children's background variables(gender, birthdate) and mother's sociodemographic variables. The study also examined the relationship between children's dispositions and mothers' receptive attitudes toward children's emotional expressions. By doing so, the study has an objective of providing help for the parental education.
The followings are the research problems of the study.
Problem 1. Are there differences in the children's dispositions by the children's background variables(gender, birthdate) and mothers' sociodemographic variables?
Problem 2. Are there differences in the mothers' receptive attitudes toward children's emotional expressions by the children's background variables(gender, birthdate) and mothers' sociodemographic variables?
Problem 3. What correlation do children's dispositions and mothers' receptive attitudes toward children's emotional expressions have?
The study was done on 248 mothers of 5-year-old children in K Public Kindergarten, S Public Kindergarten, Y Kindergarten, and S Kindergarten located in Seoul.
Questionnaires about children's dispositions and questionnaires about mothers' receptive attitude toward children's emotional expressions were distributed to the 248 mothers. Total of 212 copies were collected back and 204 copies were used excluding 8 copies that are ineffective.
In order analyze the general background, the results were produced in frequncy and percentile. In order to find out the children's dispositions and the mothers' receptive attitudes toward children's emotional expressions, the average and standard deviation were obtained.
The One-Way ANOVA and t-test were executed in order to examine the differences in children's dispositions and mothers' receptive attitudes toward children's emotional expressions by children's characteristical variables and mothers' background variables. In order to verify the differences produced by the factor analysis, the Scheffe's test was used.
The Pearson's produce moment correlation coefficient was produced in order to examine the relationship between children's dispositions and mothers' receptive attitude toward children's emotional expressions.
The results of the study show that the children's dispositions are somewhat affected by the environment and also the mothers' receptive attitudes toward children's emotional expressions are somewhat affected by the environment.
Also, it can be known that each of the children's dispositions(adaptability, activeness, reaction, regularity, emotion) have different correlation with each of the mothers' receptive attitudes toward children's emotional expressions(anger, sorrow, fear, anxiety, curiosity, joy, hatred).
This shows that the children's dispositions and mothers' receptive attitudes toward children's emotional expressions are related. Also, it shows that the mothers' receptive attitudes toward children's emotional expressions are very important for the children's dispositions.