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KMID : 0367320080190020120
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Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2008 Volume.19 No. 2 p.120 ~ p.127
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Effects of Maternal Sociodemographic Characteristics and Parenting Stress on a Child’s Self-Concept : Parenting Style as a Mediating Factor
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Chung Soo-Jin
Choi Jeong-Yoon
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Abstract
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Objectives : The aim of this study was to examine the effects of maternal sociodemographic characteristics, especially education and employment, and parenting stress on the child’s self-concept. Attention was also paid to the mediating impact of parenting style on the relationship between the maternal variables and a child’s self-concept.
Methods : A questionnaire and three scales were completed by fifth graders and their mothers, and 270 sets of paired data were analyzed.
Results : The results showed that mothers with higher education experienced less child-related parenting stress, were perceived to be more achievement-oriented and rational by their children, and also had children with more positive self-concept. The relationship between maternal education and child’s self-concept was mediated by the rationality dimension of parenting style. Maternal employment was not related to parenting stress, parenting style and most aspects of the child’s self-concept. Lastly, child-related parenting stress had a negative effect on the child’s self-concept, and this effect was mediated by the warmth and rationality dimensions of parenting style.
Conclusion : Parenting style had a mediating effect on the relationships between the child’s self-concept and maternal education and child-related parenting stress.
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KEYWORD
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Maternal Education, Parenting Stress, Parenting Style, Self-Concept
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