The purposes of the study is to investigates the effects of the bond between grandmother and grandchild, the cohesion between childen in adolescent and parents on adolescent's ego identity.
A sample of 313 adolescents in 1st and 2nd grades attending ...
The purposes of the study is to investigates the effects of the bond between grandmother and grandchild, the cohesion between childen in adolescent and parents on adolescent's ego identity.
A sample of 313 adolescents in 1st and 2nd grades attending high school in Seoul, completed questionnaires about their relationships with their grandmothers and parents.
Suh's ego identity scale, Park's scale on bonds with grandmother and Kim's scale on cohesion with parents were used.
The data of this study were analysed by t-test, one-way ANOVA, Duncan's Multiple Range Test, Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient, Stepwise Regression, Factor analysis, and Cronbach's α for reliability.
The major findings are as follows ;
1. A level of adolesent's ego identity was moderate on the whole.
The degree of cohesion between children in adolescent and parents is high. The adolescence perceived a higher degree of cohesion with their mothers than that with fathers.
The degree of intimacy between children in adolescent and grandmother is high.
2. Girls in adolescence perceived higher degrees of cohesion with their mothers than did boys. Coresidence with grandmother had a significant influence on bonds between grandchildren and grandmother.
3. Adolescent's ego identity was associted with cohesion with parent.
4. The research also shows that adolescent's ego identity was influenced by the relationship between grandchild and grandmother.
Namely, the higher intimacy degree with grandmother, the higher a level of ego identity.
5, close bonds between grandchildren and their grandmothers were determined by the parent's being perceived as close to their parents.
6. The important factors on ego identity of the adolescence who were living with their grandmothers were the degree cohesion with father, grandmother-parent relationships, the degree cohesion with mother, and occupational status of mother. For those who were not living with grandmothers, the degree of cohesion with their mothers and the bonds with grandmothers had significant influences on adolescences ego identity.