The purpose of this study was to examine effects of adult males' parental relationship and marital relationship on father-child relationship. Subjects of this study consisted of 530 married men who lived in Chungbuk province. Data were analyzed by fr...
The purpose of this study was to examine effects of adult males' parental relationship and marital relationship on father-child relationship. Subjects of this study consisted of 530 married men who lived in Chungbuk province. Data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, Cronbach's α, t-test, F-test, Scheffe post-hoc test, Pearson's correlation through using SPSS 12.0 program and the test of model was done with analysis of path analysis using AMOS 7.0 program.
The results of this study were as follows:
First, there were no differences in adult males' parental relationship according to their age, educational level, duration of marriage, and a monthly average income.
Second, there were statistical differences in adult males' marital intimacy according to their educational level, types of occupation and a monthly average income.
Third, there were statistical differences in father-child relationship according to their age, educational level, occupation and duration of marriage.
Fourth, adult males' affectionate relationship with son and daughter was only effected by positive relationship with their father.
Fifth, adult males' passive relationship with son was influenced by the positive relationship with his mother while relationship with daughter was affected by negative relationship with his mother.
Sixth, in the path to adult males' affectionate and passive relationship with his children, it revealed that affirmative relationship with his father had indirectly effect on those through the medium of both emotional and cognition intimacy with his wife and that pessimistic relationship with his father affected those only pass through cognition intimacy with his wife. On the other hand, adult males' affectionate and passive relationship with his daughter was effected by adults males' negative relationship with his father and positive relationship with his mother only through emotional intimacy with his wife.
Seventh, it unfolded that adults males' emotional intimacy with his wife influenced both affectionate and passive relationship with son and daughter and that his cognition intimacy with his wife only had effect on adults males' affectionate and passive with son.
In conclusion, this study has an important meaning in showing differences for adults males' relationship with children according to his and her sex. Remarkably, the affectionate relationship between him and his son was in the more prominent results than between him and his daughter. As those consequences, this study suggests that to conduct the program including education to fathers, counselors related to enhancing the father-children' relationship should consider not only the relationship between father and his parents in childhood but marital intimacy with his wife.