The relations between Children's Field-Independency and personal factors as age and sex, environmental factors as socioeconomic status and mother's parenting attitude were investigated in the present study. We also examined the relative effects of the...
The relations between Children's Field-Independency and personal factors as age and sex, environmental factors as socioeconomic status and mother's parenting attitude were investigated in the present study. We also examined the relative effects of these independent variables on children's Field-independency.
The subjects were 267 First, Third and sixth graders of elementary school and their mother (N=267) who are resident in Pusan. Children's Field-Independency was assessed with CEFT (Children's Embedded Figures Test) in individually held interview. Lee Won Yong' MBRI (Maternal Behavior Research Instrument) was employed for measure Mother's Parenting Attitudes.
Results showed that all personal and environmental factors employed in this study related to children's Field-Independency. It seemed that Children's Field-Independency enhanced as they grow older. Children's sex had a partial relationship with Children's Field-Independency. Boys showed higher Field-Independency than girls only in 6th graders(t=2.24, p<.05). There was clear relationship between socioecomonic status and children's Field-Independency(r=.411, p<.001). It showed that Mothers affectionate attitude and non-controlling attitude can increase Children's Field-Independency in 3rd(r=.340, p<.001, r=-.201, p<.05) and 6th (r=.238, p<.05, r=-.235, p<.05) graders but not in 1st graders. The order of relative power of 4 independent variables is grade, socioeconomic status, sex and mother's affectionate attitude.