Generative Fathering on Erikson's Perspective and its Relationship with Attachment Security of Children

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 2000;38(2):57-64.

에릭슨의 발달과업으로 본 아버지의 자녀양육 생산성과 유아 - 아버지간 애착안정성과의 관계

양미경, 조복희

초당대학교, 조복희

Generative Fathering on Erikson's Perspective and its Relationship with Attachment Security of Children

양미경, 조복희

ABSTRACT

This study is applied to the Erikson's concept of generative fathering that meets the needs of the next generation and investigated the relationship between generative fathering and the attachment security. Sixty-five of 30-36 months old children (37 boys and 28 girls) and their parents participated in this study. Fathers completed the questionnaire of parental generativity, which include items on their support of physical development, social-emotional development and intellectual development. Children's attachment was reported by mothers using the Attachment Q-set. Results revealed that father's parental generativity was noted as 3.09 in 1 to 5 child rearing activities. But the results showed that there was a significant difference in child's sex and child's birth order. Also, it was found that children's secure attachnent to their fathers was not high. There was an association between fathering generativity and children's secure attachment. This findings imply that father's active child rearing participation will increase children's secure attachment.