부모의 양육태도와 유아의 놀이성과의 관계 = Relationship between Parenting Attitude and Children`s Playfulness

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study aims to investigate the relationship between parental attitude and children`s playfulness and to highlight the importance of it. The subjects of this study are 147 children aged 4 and 5, their father or mother, and their teachers from educational institutions located in Daejeon. The questionnaire for parental attitude is Schaefer`s Maternal Behavior Research Instrument, translated by Wonyoung Lee (1983). For children`s playfulness, Children`s Playfulness Scale(CPS) is used, which was invented with the concept of playfulness defined by Barnett (1991) & Lieberman (1977). The research results are as followings: First, there is significant differences of parental attitude between fathers and mothers in all the categories of parental attitudes: loving, refusing, autonomous, and controlling attitudes. Second, there is significant difference of parental attitude by children`s gender, in particular in the refusing attitude, while there is not any significant difference of parental attitude by children`s age. However, in the loving attitude, 4-aged group gained significantly higher marks than 5-year group. Third, there is significant difference of children`s playfulness by children`s gender and age. Particularly in physical playfulness as one of sub-category of children`s playfulness, boys show better physical spontaneity than girls significantly. There is significant difference of children`s playfulness by children`s age. For cognitive spontaneity as one of sub-category of children`s playfulness, 5 aged children show higher marks than 4 aged children while 4 aged children show statistically higher marks in happiness expression than 5 aged children. Fourth, there is significantly positive relationship between father`s loving attitude and children`s social spontaneity. As father`s controlling attitude is higher, physical, social, and cognitive spontaneity of children is higher. There is significantly positive relationship between mother`s controlling attitude and children`s physical spontaneity while there is negative relationship between mother`s refusing attitude and children`s cognitive spontaneity. However, overall there is not significant relationship between father and mother`s parenting attitude and children`s playfulness.