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KMID : 0378019810240030090
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New Medical Journal
1981 Volume.24 No. 3 p.90 ~ p.100
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Mothers´ Attitude Toward Sex Education For The Urban Primary School Children
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Abstract
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The study was designed to explore mothers´ attitude toward sex education for the sixth grade primary school children. The specific objectives of the study were to evaluate the variation of mothers´ sex education performance for their children and the necessity of sex education for their children. The data were gathered through the questionnaire distributed to the children´s mother in Seoul in the period between 1st of September and 20th of October in 1980. The gathered 1358 samples from three private schools and three public schools were used in contengency analysis (Chi-Square test). The results of the study are summarized as follows
1. In general, 54.3% of mothers addressed prior sex education, which meant the orientation about sex to their children before their children raised a question about sex. 2. The variation of prior sex education by mothers´ demographic and social characteristics were
1) More mothers of private school children (56.5%) than mothers of public school
children (43.5%) addressed prior sex education to their children (p<0. 01).
2) The most active age category for prior sex education was identified as 4145 years age group while 42. 0% of mothers were 36-40 years age group. These two age groups covered 83.7% of total population.
3) The higher the level of education, the higher the level of prior sex education (p<0. 01), The high school and college graduates showed the highest level of prior sex education.
4) Mothers with out a job showed a higher level of prior sex education (p<0. 05). 5) Among the mothers with prior sex education, Christians were majority (42. 1%) while Buddhists (35.5%) and non-religious mothers (22.4%) were identified as minorities. Among the mothers without prior sex education to their children,
Buddhists appeared to be dominant group (43. 1%) while Christians (29.2%) and non-religious mothers (27.7%) maintained minority status.
6) More mothers who participated in social activities than those who did not tended to address prior sex education to their children (p<0. 01).
7. More mothers who owned a4 private house, than those who were tenants addressed prior sex education to their children- (p8) Slightly more nuclear families than extended families addressed prior aexx education to their children. But it was not statistically significant at 0. Q5 Level.
9) More mothers with fewer number of children, two to three, than .those with a large number of children, four or more, addressed . prior sex education to their children (p<0.05).
3. Mothers´ Attitude Toward Sex Education
1) The reasons by they addressed prior sex education to their children were for better mental health (35.9%) and for a sound moral and ethical socialization (34. 2%). On the other hand, the reasons why they did not gave their children prior sex education were that primary school children were too young to understand sex (45.2%) and that children would gradually learn about sex by themselves (34.7%).
2) More mothers with prior sex education than those without tended to discuss about prior sex education with their husbands (p<0. 01).
3) Mothers attitudes toward their children´s question about sex or sex organs were as follows:
(a) More mothers with sex education (63.4%) than those without (36.6%) had thequestions about sex from their children.
(b) When their children raised the question about sex, 64.2% of them frankly answered the question.
(c) Among the mothers who had not question about sex from their children, 62. 3% of them indicated that they would frankly answer the question if their children raised such a question.
4) More mothers with prior sex education then those without tended to express a higher intensity of desire for prior sex education (p<0.01).
5) More mothers with prior sex education than mothers without prior sex education desired that sex education should be given in the middle school or in earlier years (p<0. 01).
6) More mothers with prior sex education (86.0%) than those without (71.4%) expressed their opinion that both parents and teachers should be in charge of sex education (P7) More- mothers with prior sex education (62. 0%) than those without (50.1°0) expressed their status that their sex education for their children in the case of mothers´ satisfactory knowledge about sex (p<0.01).
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