The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of mother's disposition, childhood experience and rearing behavior upon young children's peer relation and aggression. For this, following study questions were established:
1. 'What is the inf...
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of mother's disposition, childhood experience and rearing behavior upon young children's peer relation and aggression. For this, following study questions were established:
1. 'What is the influence of mother's disposition, childhood experience and rearing behavior upon young children's peer relation?'
2. 'What is the influence of mother's disposition, childhood experience and rearing behavior upon young children's aggression?'
In order to verify the suitability of test tools, the investigator collected data from 500 young children of 4~7 years of age who attending at 20 edu-care facilities in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do and their mothers (n=500) over the period from September 20 (Monday) to October 8 (Friday), 2010 and then carried out statistical examination.
Data were analyzed with the hierarchical multiple regression analysis in order to examine the influence of mother's disposition, childhood experience and rearing behavior upon young children's peer relation and aggression. The results of statistical examination showed that mother's disposition, childhood experience and rearing behavior had correlations with young children's peer relations, but they had no correlations with young children's aggression.
Study findings are as follows:
First, as for the influence of mother's disposition, childhood experience and rearing behavior upon young children's peer relation, mother's positive characteristics increased young children's positive interaction with peers and decreased negative interaction with peers. As for the concrete influence of mother's characteristics (disposition, childhood experience and rearing behavior) upon young children's positive interaction with peers, mother's highly active disposition, independence-encouraging childhood experience and reasonably explanatory and affectionate rearing behavior seemed to increase young children's positive interaction with peers. On the other hand, mother's supervising, excessive meddling, punishing and permissive disposition seemed to decrease young children's positive interaction with peers. Regarding negative interaction with peers, mother's highly active disposition seemed to decrease young children's negative interaction with peers. When mother's overprotection and rejection―sub factors of mother's childhood experience―and inconsistency―a sub factor of mother's rearing behavior―were higher, young children's negative interaction with peers was higher too.
Second, as for the influence of mother's disposition, childhood experience and rearing behavior upon young children's aggression, mother's disposition had no significant influence upon young children's aggression. In addition, the relationship between mother's childhood experience and young children's aggression had no significant influence upon overt aggression, whereas it had statistically significant negative influence upon relational aggression (r=-.116, p<.05). However, there were no significant correlations between mother's rearing behavior and young children's aggression. As for the concrete influence of mother's disposition, childhood experience and rearing behavior upon young children's aggression, when mother's active and sociable disposition and affectionate rearing behavior were higher, young children's overt aggression decreased. When mother's childhood experience of overprotection and rejection was higher, young children's overt aggression seemed to increase. On the other hand, mother's permissive rearing behavior was higher, young children's relational aggression increased. But mother's affectionate rearing behavior was higher, young children's relational aggression decreased.
In conclusion, mother's disposition, childhood experience and rearing behavior had significant influence upon young children's peer relation, but it had no significant influence upon young children's aggression. In the concrete, positive sub-factors of mother's disposition, childhood experience and rearing behavior had positive influence upon young children's peer relation and decreased young children's aggression. On the other hand, negative sub-factors had negative influence upon young children's peer relation and increased young children's aggression.