The purpose of this study was to clear up if the difference in children’s self-concepts follow the correspondence of child-rearing attitudes between parents, to find the desirable attitudes and roles of them, and to offer the fundamental data needed...
The purpose of this study was to clear up if the difference in children’s self-concepts follow the correspondence of child-rearing attitudes between parents, to find the desirable attitudes and roles of them, and to offer the fundamental data needed to form the children’s positive self-concepts.
I used affection-rejection and self-control-regulation of Perceived Parenting Scale developed by Oh Sung shim and Lee Jong seung(1982), summarized by Lim Sun hwa(1987), as divided into two sectors; to father and mother. And to figure out children’s self-concepts, I used the test developed by Ko Jin young(2004), which names ‘self-conception test for elementary school students’ depending on marsh(1990)’s SPQ-I.
Parents’ child-rearing attitudes are divided into affection-self-control, affection-regulation, rejection-self-control, rejection-regulation, founded on affection-rejection, and self-control-regulation. I defined it as correspondence when parents’ attitudes correspond exactly, and discordance when they partly correspond or discordant. also I put t-verification in operation to recognize difference of children’s self-concepts between correspondence and discordance of child-rearing attitudes, and self-concepts following attitudes’ correspondences pattern.
The results of this study are:
First, both motherly and fatherly child-rearing attitudes show a tendency to affection-self control, and secondary was affection-regulation.
Second, children’s parental self-concepts appear higher when parents’ child-rearing attitudes correspond than they discordant.
Third, children’s friend-self-concepts was higher when parents’ child-rearing attitudes correspond in affection-regulation than the others.
To sum up all these when parents’ child-rearing attitudes correspond general self-concepts have little difference, but in children’s parental self-concepts, which is in subordinate section, they shows higher. And when child-rearing attitudes’ correspondent types are affection-self-control, they have little difference in whole, but higher in friend-self-concepts, so these results show child-rearing attitudes’ correspondence type in affection-self-control is more desirable.
So, to form desirable self-concepts, parents should have consistency in breeding, and it is important to make mutual agreement. Also it is encouraged to breed their children in affection-self-control type.
Keywords : Parental child-rearing attitude type, Parental child-rearing attitude correspondence, Self-concept