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KMID : 1094520140170040419
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Korean Journal of Play Therapy
2014 Volume.17 No. 4 p.419 ~ p.438
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The Mediating Effect of Children’s Empathic Abilities on the Relationships between Children’s Perceptions of Parenting Attitudes and Peer Relationships
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Im Hee-Jin
Jin Mi-Kyoung
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Abstract
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This study examined the meditating effects of children`s empathic abilities on the relationships between parenting attitudes and children`s peer relationships. Survey data from 543 children in the 5th and 6th grades in elementary schools were taken for analysis, using Pearson`s correlation, regression analysis, and structural equation modeling in SPSS and AMOS 18.0. The study revealed the following results: First, children`s perception of parenting attitudes as `warm and acceptive` had positive impacts upon their peer relationships. However, when children perceived their fathers as `rejective and restrictive` and mothers as `permissive and non-intervening`, this worked negatively on their peer relationships. Second, `warmth-acceptance` type attitudes developed children`s empathic abilities while `permission and non-intervention` and `rejection and restriction` attitudes undermined these abilities. Third, the relationship between children`s empathic abilities and their peer relationships showed a high degree of statistical significance. Fourth, the children`s empathic abilities played a fully mediation effects on parental attitudes and peer relationships. This underlines the fact that parenting attitudes had indirect influences upon children`s peer relationships through affecting children`s empathic abilities.
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KEYWORD
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Parenting attitudes, Peer relationships, Empathic abilities
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