This study aims to discover in which way past experience affects the current life by mutually connecting the relationship between mother-child parenting and the transfer of emotional intelligence between generations.
Concerning research subjects, the ...
This study aims to discover in which way past experience affects the current life by mutually connecting the relationship between mother-child parenting and the transfer of emotional intelligence between generations.
Concerning research subjects, the study designated 4 kindergartens and preschools located in Jeonju City, Jeonbuk, and conducted a test of 219 children at the age of 3~5 and their mothers.
The findings include the following.
First, there appeared to be a significantly high correlation by each sub-area in mother-child parenting during the childhood of a mother and current mother-child parenting.
Second, mother-child parenting during the childhood of a mother was shown to have a significantly high correlation with current mother-child parenting according to the gender of a child and the educational background and age of a mother.
Third, the emotional intelligences of a mother and a child had a low positive correlation in each sub-area.
Fourth, the emotional intelligence of a mother was found to have a low correlation with the emotional intelligence of a child according to the gender of a child and the educational background and age of a mother.
Fifth, the final causal model which demonstrated a transfer between generations was not a model that could be theoretically supported.
Based on the findings, the study may reach the following conclusions.
1. There is a significant correlation between mother-child parenting during the childhood of a mother and current mother-child parenting. Also, there appeared to be a significant correlation in the relationship between each of the sub-areas of parenting according to the gender of a child and the educational background and age of a mother. These results display a significant mediator effect among the sub-areas of the mother-child parenting of a grandmother and a mother.
2. There is a low positive correlation between the emotional intelligences of a mother and a child, and there also appeared to be a low correlation in the relationship with each sub-area of emotional intelligence according to the gender of a child and the educational background and age of a mother. However, with these results, it is not sufficient to simply establish the causal relationship that the emotional intelligence of a mother affected that of a child.
3. A model symbolizing a transfer between generations in mother-child parenting and emotional intelligence is a different result from the theoretical support. Although it is showing a significant mediator effect between variables of the generation between a grandmother and a mother, it ended up in merely demonstrating a negative coefficient with the oppressive parenting of a mother in the relationship with the emotional intelligence of a child. Perhaps, such a subject should be reviewed with a more elaborate research design in the future.
This study looked into the relationship between mother-child parenting and a transfer of emotional intelligence between generations. Therefore, through the above research results, this study is supposed to propose a desirable direction in preparing an educational program through interactions between a mother and a child.