The purpose of this study was to investigate the re1ationship between the fathering role practices and farther`s playfulness with his child in early childhood. The subject, of this study were 377 fathers having their sons and/or daughters who go cur...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the re1ationship between the fathering role practices and farther`s playfulness with his child in early childhood. The subject, of this study were 377 fathers having their sons and/or daughters who go currently in a kindergarten or six day-care centers In Seoul. Playfulness Scale for Adult(Eun Sil Yang, 1995) ana the modified Fathering Practice Scale(Seon Hwa Cho, 1998) were used in this study. The major findings of this study were as fellows : 1) there woe some differences in father`s playfulness in connection with age, job, academic backgound, aid child`s age, rad a number of children. 2) father`s playfulness had a lot to do with the fathering role practices. Then the explanatory variables for the sub-factors of fathering role practices were informality and comicality of father`s playfulness. 3) sub-factors of father`s playfulness affected the fathering practices made some differences according to the child`s gender.