ABSTRACT
This study explored the effect of marital conflict and parent nursing attitude perceived by children on their loneliness. It also examined whether marital conflict perceived by children affects their loneliness through the medium of parent r...
ABSTRACT
This study explored the effect of marital conflict and parent nursing attitude perceived by children on their loneliness. It also examined whether marital conflict perceived by children affects their loneliness through the medium of parent rearing attitude. Then, the study tried to present the necessity of desirable management of marital conflict suitable to today's family environment and suggested effective methods of teaching children to parents who play a crucial role in children's loneliness.
The study conducted a survey involving 521 fifth-and sixth-grade students at four elementary schools in the Seoul metropolitan area using children's perception of interparental conflict scale(CPIC ;
Grych, et al,1992) children's perception of parent nursing attitude scale(Im Sun-hwa, 1987) and children's loneliness scale(Oh hyun-mi, 2000).
SPSS 12.0 statistical program was employed in order to analyze the collected data. Correlation analysis, stepwise regression analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, and two-way analysis of variance were performed.
The results of the analyses were summarized as follows.
As the first issue of this study, the examination of the effect of marital conflict and parent nursing attitude perceived by children on children's loneliness showed both marital conflict and parent nursing attitude have an influence on children' loneliness. The more severely children perceived of marital conflict, the more loneliness they felt. Also, the more negatively they perceived of their parents' nursing attitude, the more loneliness they felt. The study explored how the subordinate factors of marital conflict and parent nursing attitude perceived by children are related to children's loneliness and examined what variables relatively affect children's loneliness.
First, marital conflict perceived by children had a higher static correlation to children's loneliness. The predictor variable that explained children's loneliness most was perceived threat, followed by content and coping efficiency.
Second, parent nursing attitude perceived by children and children's loneliness displayed a higher negative correlation. Subordinate factors that predict children's loneliness constitutes affective parenting attitudes and rational parenting attitudes.
Third, marital conflict and parent nursing attitude perceived by children displayed a higher negative correlation. The predictor variable on the amicable settlement and the effective coping for the parent nursing attitude that children perceive was found to be rationality in every subordinate factor.
As the second issue of this study, the examination of whether marital conflict perceived by children affects children's loneliness through parent nursing attitude showed that when the intervening variable, parent nursing attitude, was controlled, the effectiveness of marital conflict perceived by children decreased. This indicates marital conflict affects children's loneliness through parent nursing attitude.
Key words: marital conflict, parent nursing attitude, loneliness In conclusion, the more severely children perceive of marital conflict, the more they felt loneliness. In addition, parent nursing attitude has a mediating effect on marital conflict and children's loneliness.