Relevant Variables of children's Social Competence

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 2004;42(10):23-38.

아동의 사회적 유능성에 관련된 변인 연구

Hyuk Jun Moon, Kim, Jung Hee

Dept. of Child & Family Studies. The Catholic Univ. of Korea

ABSTRACT

This study firstly investigated the relationships of children's social competence with the relevant factors such as mother's parental role satisfaction and parenting behaviors and secondly analyzed if parenting behaviors function as mediators. The subjects were 1865-year-old children and their mothers. The results showed that children's social competence was related to the children's sex, health, and mother's academic career. Children's social competence was influenced by the relation satisfaction between parents and children, the role conflict between wife and husband, the mother s warm-hearted and rational parenting, and the wife's satisfaction of her husband's support. The mother's warm-hearted and rational parenting functioned as a mediator(intermediary factor) between the children's social competence and the mother's parental role satisfaction.

Keywords: 사회적 유능성, social competence, 부모역할 만족도, parental role satisfaction, 양육행동, parenting behaviors