In this study, I tried to find out the differences in parenting stress, parental role recognition, and parenting behavior according to the individual characteristics of infant mothers and to understand the correlation. In addition, among the parenting...
In this study, I tried to find out the differences in parenting stress, parental role recognition, and parenting behavior according to the individual characteristics of infant mothers and to understand the correlation. In addition, among the parenting stress and four sub-factors of parental role recognition, the factors that have the greatest influence on parenting behavior were investigated. Participants in the study were mothers of infants aged 0 to 36 months, who responded to self-report questionnaires of parenting stress, parental role recognition, and parenting behavior, with a total of 148 participants.
Summarizing the results, first, among the mother's individual characteristics, the child's birth ranking showed a positive correlation in parenting stress, and there were no variables showing differences in parental role recognition. In addition, the gender of the child differed in parenting behavior. Second, parenting stress showed negative correlation with investment in parental roles, balance between parental roles and other roles, and satisfaction with parental roles, and positive correlation with limiting parenting behavior. Third, parental role recognition also showed a positive correlation between each sub-element, and positive correlation with parenting behavior and sub-element sensitivity and teaching/material stimulation parenting behavior. Fourth, teaching/material stimulation parenting behavior and sensitivity showed a positive correlation with investment in parental roles and competence in parental roles, and limiting parenting behavior showed a positive correlation with sensitivity, teaching/material stimulation parenting behavior, as well as parenting stress. Lastly, among the four sub-factors of parenting stress and parental role recognition, the factor that had the greatest influence on parenting behavior was investment in parental role.